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A former hurricane, now a tropical depression, Julia flooded Guatemala and El Salvador with torrential rains after their resurgence in the Pacific following the onslaught of 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 died after a wall collapsed in a space where they had sought refuge in the town of Comasagua, where a slew of police and foot soldiers conducted anti-gang raids.
Another soldier wounded.
Two other people died in the eastern El Salvador city of Guatajiagua after heavy rains caused a wall in their house to collapse.
Another boy in El Salvador died after being 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 woman died when she was swept away by currents and three other people died when her boat flooded or capsized in northern Honduras.
A boy in Nicaragua killed by a falling tree.
Julia hit the central coast of the Nicaraguan Caribbean early Sunday morning in the form of a hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 140 km / h and survived the passage through the mountainous terrain of the country, entering the Pacific last that day as a tropical storm.
By Monday, Julia had moved inland over Guatemala and its winds had dropped to 60 km/h.
The U. S. National Hurricane Center The U. S. Department of Health said Julia was centered about 60 km east-northeast of Puerto San Jose, Guatemala, and moved west-northwest at 24 km/h.
The outlet said life-threatening flash floods and landslides were imaginable in Central America and southern Mexico until Tuesday, and the typhoon was expected to bring up to 38cm of rain to remote areas.
In Guatemala, two other people were reported missing and two were hospitalized, and about 1300 more people had to leave their homes due to floods and emerging rivers.
Julia was expected to burn later Monday as it passed off the Guatemalan coast.
Heavy rains and evacuations were reported in Panama, Honduras and Costa Rica, where some roads were closed due to downpours.