2023-11-23 22:36:27
Rescuers try to free vehicles trapped under a wall that collapsed on an avenue, at the entrance to a tunnel, in Santo Domingo, November 18, 2023. EDDY VITTINI / AP
The death toll from the torrential rains that fell a few days ago in the Dominican Republic rose to 30 deaths, authorities announced Thursday, November 23.
The Emergency Operations Center (COE) said in a new bulletin that, “due to heavy rains, urban and rural flooding, the collapse of bridges and a viaduct, around thirty people lost their lives”.
In Santo Domingo, the capital, a wall collapsed on several vehicles, killing 9 people. The rains also isolated 55 municipalities, 7,060 people were displaced and 2,591 others taken into care.
These are the “heaviest rainfall ever recorded in the Dominican Republic”, according to the COE. Of the 32 provinces in this country of 10.7 million inhabitants, only one remains on alert “for possible flooding (…) or landslides ».
On Monday, the government declared a three-day national mourning in tribute to the victims.
At the end of August, the passage of storm Franklin had already left two dead and one missing, and led to the evacuation of around 3,000 people.
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