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    105 dead in Central America after days of rain

    SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — At least 105 people have died in flooding and landslides provoked by 10 days of heavy rains in Central America, authorities said Thursday.

    More than a million people have been affected in the region, prompting officials to ask for humanitarian aid and urge those unaffected to show solidarity.

    Almost 60 inches (152 centimeters) of rain have accumulated in the past 10 days. The cumulative record of Hurricane Mitch, which devastated the region in 1998, killing 11,000 people, was 34 inches (86 centimeters), said Salvadoran Natural Resources Minister German Rosa Chavez.

    Salvadoran President Mauricio Funes urged the international community to send humanitarian aid, saying in a televised message to the nation Wednesday night, "El Salvador is going through one of the most dramatic disasters in its history."

    In Honduras, President Porfirio Lobo urged his countrymen to help their fellow citizens.

    "This is a new call for solidarity," Lobo said.

    Guatemala has reported 38 deaths; El Salvador, 34; Honduras, 15; Nicaragua 13 and Costa Rica, 5.

     

    15 comments

    • Charles  •  Stockton, United States  •  6 mths ago
      Sorry we don't have money anymore to help people, we need our war hunds.
    • 17'17'  •  Los Angeles, United States  •  6 mths ago
      Cutting trees, turn it to charcol, Cut more tree...(greed) destroy more forest! it will come back to you and ask for payment.. :( , cut trees but plant a new one.
    • plang  •  Parsippany, United States  •  6 mths ago
      thousands of desperate americans fleeing a leaderless america and trying to find work in mexico...
    • billybobthornton  •  6 mths ago
      and zey says ze global warming no reel.
    • DMZ  •  Milwaukee, United States  •  6 mths ago
      what happened to the "world is turning into a desert" prediction?
      • edgar 6 mths ago
        well it's happening but first the polar caps melt then massive rainstorms then dessert time .
      • edgar 6 mths ago
        central is part of the northern continent of america
    • Billy  •  6 mths ago
      For the love of money and greedy , countries are not even safe. Big Oil put Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico and cutting trees is taking away these peoples country. But the greedy stock market can only see making big money off the backs of disaster victims.
    • flyjess  •  Richardson, United States  •  6 mths ago
      when isn't this piece of crap country in turmoil???? nothin like over population, can't wait til add another billion, way to go catholic church, sure wish that mom of 5 who can't afford to feed the first five, could get some god #$%$ birth control!!! or are you going to pay for all the food, water, education them all for the next 50 years?? didn't think so hypocrites!
    • BruceB  •  Florham Park, United States  •  6 mths ago
      Sorry, but we are all out of money after giving it to countries that want to kill us.
    • 17'17'  •  Los Angeles, United States  •  6 mths ago
      Deuteronomy 20: 19 “In case you lay siege to a city many days by fighting against it so as to capture it, you must not ruin its trees by wielding an ax against them; for you should eat from them, and you must not cut them down, for is the tree of the field a man to be besieged by you? 20 Only a tree that you know is not a tree for food, it is the one you should ruin, and you must cut it down and build siegeworks against the city that is making war with you, until it falls. But this people torch the whole forest. They rape the rain forest.
    • Hopituh  •  Evansville, United States  •  6 mths ago
      These things are destined to happen. The Messiah is on the verge of return.
    • 2fast4u  •  6 mths ago
      sh...t , more illegals coming ! lets hope the cartels get them stopped @ mexico ! whaddaya think of that sh...t timmie ?
    • Brooks S  •  Olathe, United States  •  6 mths ago
      Thats Gawd washing away the filth.
      • edgar 6 mths ago
        i doubt it it hasn't washed you away yet
      • tony 6 mths ago
        how come you r still here
    • Da fuk Do you care  •  6 mths ago
      its Abraham Lincolns fault we all know that
    • R  •  Southfield, United States  •  6 mths ago
      Bush said it was Obama's fault.
    • The Real Deep Throat  •  6 mths ago
      Obama said it was Bush's fault.
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