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Thirteen people have died in flooding and landslides in El Salvador and Guatemala as heavy rains pound Central America, authorities from the two countries said
In El Salvador, the hardest hit country so far, five people died Monday in a landslide in the western district of Tacuba.
Those deaths follow two fatalities recorded on Sunday after a tree and a pole fell on a car that was travelling on a highway in the capital.
Another four people were killed in flooding and landslides between Friday and Sunday.
President Nayib Bukele said on X that he had asked Congress to make today a federal holiday to avoid commutes and “reduce the risk of tragedies.”
In Guatemala, a 59-year-old woman and a 68-year-old man died on Sunday in the village of Chacaya, in the western municipality Sacapulas, when they were buried by a collapsed wall, authorities said.
Dozens to hundreds die each year in Central America as the rainy season leaves extensive damage to countries’ infrastructure.
