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Fishermen watch boats submerged in the water after Hurricane Julia ripped through Nicaragua’s Bluefields region on Sunday.
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A man stands outdoors in his space surrounded by floodwaters after Hurricane Julia swept through the Bluefields region of Nicaragua on Sunday.
GUATEMALA CITY>> Now a tropical depression, former Hurricane Julia flooded Guatemala and El Salvador with torrential rains after reappearing in the Pacific after Nicaragua.
At least 19 other people were reported to have died as a direct or indirect result of the storm.
Guatemala’s crisis prevention firm said five other people died after a hill collapsed on their home in Alta Verapaz province, burying them.
The Salvadoran government said five Salvadoran army infantrymen were killed after a wall collapsed in a space where they had sought refuge in the town of Comasagua, where shipments of police and infantrymen conducted anti-gang raids. Another soldier was wounded.
Two other people died in the eastern city of Guatajiagua after heavy rains caused a wall to collapse in their home. Another man in El Salvador died when he was swept away by a current, and another died when a tree fell on him.
Rivers burst their banks and El Salvador declared a state of emergency and opened 80 typhoon shelters.
In neighboring Honduras, a 22-year-old woguy died when swept away by currents, and 3 other people died when his boat flooded or capsized in northern Honduras. A man in Nicaragua died from a falling tree.
Julia hit Nicaragua’s central Caribbean coast early Sunday as a hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 85 mph and survived passage through the country’s mountainous terrain, entering the Pacific late in the day as a tropical storm.
Today, Julia had moved inland over Guatemala and its winds had dropped to 35 mph.
The U. S. National Hurricane Center The U. S. Department of Health said Julia was centered about 35 miles east-northeast of Puerto San Jose, Guatemala, and moved west-northwest at 15 mph.
The outlet said flash floods and life-threatening landslides were imaginable in Central America and southern Mexico until Tuesday, and the typhoon was expected to bring up to 15 inches of rain to remote areas.
In Guatemala, two more people were reported missing and two were hospitalized, and some 1,300 more people were forced to flee their homes due to flooding and emerging rivers.
Julia expected to burn later that day as she passed over the Guatemalan coast.
Colombia’s national crisis control firm reported Sunday that Julia blew off the roofs of several houses and knocked down trees as she passed through Nicaragua’s San Andres island. There were no immediate reports of deaths.
In Nicaragua, Vice President Rosario Murillo told TN8 tv that another 9,500 people were evacuated to shelters.
Heavy rains and evacuations were reported in Panama, Honduras and Costa Rica, where some roads were closed due to downpours.
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