The La Niña phenomenon arrives with heavy rains and copious floods
The La Niña phenomenon comes with heavy rains and copious floods
The flow of the Quebrada La Molina increased due to the La Niña phenomenon.
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Heavy rains caused a flood that left at least seven dead during a religious meeting in which about 40 people participated in the state of Táchira (west), region of the Venezuelan Andes bordering Colombia.
“In the upper part of the mountain there was a copious waterfall, which produced a flood that took a group of people”indicated this Saturday the governor of Táchira, Freddy Bernal, in statements broadcast on his social networks.
(Keep reading: Venezuela’s Ministry of Defense will meet with its Colombian counterpart, Iván Velásquez).
“So far seven bodies have been extracted, of which four are unidentified, we continue the search for three bodies,” he reported on the event recorded on Friday. It is a “regrettable tragedy” that involved members “of the Methodist church” They were in a river, Bernal said about the Protestant Christian religious group that had gathered in the tourist area for a “coexistence.”
(Suggested reading: Meeting of parliamentarians on the border with Venezuela was suspended).
36 people participated in the activity. The flood occurred while some were bathing in the river, which abruptly increased its flow, dragging several people. search work, made difficult by the geographical characteristics of this mountainous region and the low temperatures, They continued into Saturday night to try to recover the other bodies.
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Venezuela has registered in 2022 a period of rains above the average, according to authorities, which has left damage in several regions. government spokespersons they attribute the copious rainfall to the incidence of the climatic phenomenon La Niña.
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