Chile declares state of emergency over deadly rainfall
- Heavy rainfall in northern Chile has killed at least 10 people and damaged over 1,100 homes, prompting a state of emergency declared by the government.
- The torrential rain affected the usually dry Coquimbo and Atacama regions, with what normally rains in a month falling within an hour.
- President Jose Antonio Kast authorized military deployment and rapid aid mobilization in response to flooding that blocked roads and disrupted water supplies.
- Chile's national meteorological service described the rainfall as abnormal and extreme, with the heaviest precipitation recorded in two decades.
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Chile is battling devastating floods triggered by a wave of storms and heavy rain. Authorities have reported at least 10 deaths and 17 injuries. A state of emergency has been declared in two regions in the north of the country.
Heavy rains in Chile have killed at least 10 people and destroyed or severely damaged more than 1,000 homes, officials said Monday, as the government declared a state of emergency.
In Chile, President Kast declared the disaster after floods caused by heavy rains.
This unprecedented weather caused at least five deaths, four missing and destroyed or severely damaged more than 1,100 homes, according to an initial assessment by the authorities.
Sunday, "the amount of rain that usually falls in a month has fallen in an hour," the Under-Secretary of State for the Interior said, about this event which began on 15 July.
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