We have to mourn the death of 91 people because of the rains, said Salvadoran Interior Minister Humberto Centeno, at a press conference.
Meanwhile, the director of Protection Civil, Jorge Melendez, said the rains were due to a low pressure (…) and the lags in the region has left the Ida phenomenon.
Ida is now category 2, with winds near 160 km /h, and goes to Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, said National Hurricane Center (NHC) U.S. this Sunday.
Most of The dead Salvadorans report in the departments of San Salvador, La Libertad, Cuscatlan and La Paz (center) and San Vicente (east), where Civil Protection declared an orange alert on Sunday, activating the whole system of emergency care.
In addition, Civil Protection authorities and seek relief bodies 60 missing in San Vicente, and it is likely that the death toll to rise.
In the towns of Verapaz and Tepetitan, Department of San Vicente, there could be more dead since the landslides and overflowing rivers have destroyed many homes, Melendez said.
In Initially, the relief agencies reported 20 deaths in Tepetitan and Verapaz, where rescue teams looking for plenty of people who allegedly is missing, he said.
At the moment the authorities of Civil Defense reported 7,000 people evacuated in different parts of the country following the rains have also damaged or destroyedroads and bridges in different places.
El Salvador has a green alert in nine of fourteen departments in the country since Thursday because of the rains that hit the country.
Ida is 120 km east-southeast of the resort of Cancun in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo and 130 km east-northeast of Cozumel, Quintana Roo also and moving northwest at 18 km /h, said the Mexican National Meteorological Service (SMN) in its latest report.
SMN recommended to local authorities to keep under surveillance the area.
In his stay in Nicaragua, where Ida acquired Thursday hurricane strength before degrading storm again tropical, left over 13,000 homeless, 930 homes without roofs or falls and 5591 hectares of crops damaged, according to an official.
heavy rain has also left in Honduras, although there are no reported casualties or major damage.
Meanwhile, the low pressure system that is battering the Pacific also damaged hundreds of homes and at least 200 evacuees from the flooding in Guatemala.
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