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Boy’s Body Found after Being Swept Away in
Nicaragua Rains
Managua – Emergency crews found the body of
a 5-year-old boy who went missing after he
was swept away by water in a downpour that
also caused property damage in Managua,
Nicaraguan Civil Defense authorities said
Sunday.
The body of Junior Jose Poveda Ortiz was
found on Sunday near the coast of the Lago
de Managua, north of the capital, after
several hours of searching by firefighters
and relatives.
Nearby, according to the local press, the
body of an unidentified adult was found, but
it has not been confirmed whether he, too,
drowned during the downpour on Friday that
took the life of the youngster.
Authorities did, however, confirm that a
taxi driver – whose name they did not
provide – died of a heart attack as he was
driving his vehicle along a Managua street
in the middle of the torrential rain.
The boy disappeared Friday night while a
neighbor was trying to rescue him and his
two siblings in Managua, the boy’s mother,
Juan Ortiz Salgado, told reporters.
The rains – which in just three hours dumped
174 millimeters (6.85 inches) of water in
the capital, when the average monthly
rainfall is 159 mm (6.26 in.) – caused
flooding in some capital neighborhoods,
affecting 442 families, knocking out the
sewage system, damaging more than 200 meters
(yards) of streets, causing 180 meters of
walls to collapse and destroying one home.
The bad weather is the result of the first
tropical wave to hit Nicaragua this rainy
season, although experts have characterized
this particular weather phenomenon as a
“weak” one.
The rains fell unevenly around the country,
and – in fact – no precipitation was
registered across most of Nicaragua, but
weather authorities predict that rains will
affect the entire nation this coming week.
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