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Storm Makes Life Even Harder in
Nicaragua’s Poorest Region
MANAGUA – Hurricane Ida’s path through
Nicaragua left one person missing and at
least 15,000 homeless in the country’s
poorest region, officials said Friday in
announcing the shipments of aid being sent.
The deputy chief of civil defense, Col.
Gilberto Narvaez, told Efe that more than
8,100 people remain in shelters.
He said that most of the refugees as well as
the nearly 7,000 residents who found shelter
in the homes of friends or family are
Miskito Indians.
The executive secretary of the Sinapred
disaster management office, Ramon Arnesto
Soza, told reporters that some 3,600 kilos
(4 tons) of food were sent Friday to
refugees in the Caribbean area where Ida
made landfall Thursday as a Category 1
hurricane.
At the same time some 68,314 kilos (75 tons)
of food were sent by road, chiefly rice,
beans, corn, sugar, oil, cereal and powdered
milk.
Ida, now degraded to a tropical depression,
also left 532 houses damaged to varying
degrees, extensive damage to infrastructure
and devastated some 1,400 hectares (3,500
acres) of crops along the Caribbean,
according to preliminary reports.
Sinapred regional and municipal committees
have begun an evaluation of the damage and
an analysis of needs to determine the true
consequences of the meteorological
phenomenon, Soza said.
Ida departed Nicaraguan territory Friday
morning and entered Honduras, government
meteorologist Marcio Baca told the media.
EFE
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