Rescuers were still looking for seven missing Monday in El Salvador, hit by Amanda, the first storm from the Pacific this year, which killed at least 18 people in the Central American country and in Honduras and Guatemala neighbors.
The searches were trying to locate the missing under landslides and mudslides caused by torrential rain and strong winds that hit El Salvador on Sunday, said Interior Minister Mario Duran. "We have fifteen dead and seven missing," he told reporters.
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El Salvador was the country hardest hit by Amanda, which caused floods, landslides and power outages when approaching neighboring countries in Central America.
The remnants of the storm reached Guatemala later Sunday, where two people were killed, disaster coordinator David de Leon said.
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One was a nine-year-old boy swept away by the flow of a flooded river, while the second victim was killed by the collapse of a home northeast of Guatemala City, de Leon said. . One person was also killed in Honduras, where authorities reported landslides and floods.
The President of El Salvador Nayib Bukele declared a 15-day state of emergency. According to him, the storm caused damage estimated at 20 million dollars.
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