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Article: El Salvador declares emergency.
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- Aljazeera.net
- Article date:
- November 9, 2009
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11/9/2009 3:53:16 PM
Mauricio Funes, the president of El Salvador, has declared a national emergency in the country after days of heavy rains and flooding left at least 130 people dead in the passage of Hurricane Ida.
Funes on Monday described the disaster as "a tragedy" and said the damage sustained by his country was "incalculable".
His comments came as rescue workers continued the search for dozens of people missing in a mudslide in Verapaz, a town about 50 km from San Salavador.
Soldiers, emergency workers and residents in the town dug through the rubble and debris for survivors, in a search complicated by impassable roads and ...