[NYTr] Nicaragua Declares 3 Days of Mourning for Victims of Hurricane Felix
 
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:43:19 -0500 (CDT)

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PL via Granma International - Sep 10, 2007
http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2007/septiembre/lun10/37duelo.html

Three days of mourning in Nicaragua over tragic outcome of hurricane

Managua, Sept. 10 (PL).b Nicaraguan authorities declared three days of
national morning over the human tragedy caused by Hurricane Felix in
the North Atlantic Region (RAAN), where according to official data, the
number of dead rose to 67.

The decree was announced over radio and TV by Rosario Murillo,
coordinator of the Council on Communication and Citizenry and wife of
President Daniel Ortega, during a meeting to assess damages caused by
the hurricane.

According to a report presented to Ortega by Major General Julio Cesar
AvilC)s, the Nicaraguan Armybs Chief of General Staff, 138 people were
still missing six days after Felixbs passing.

The number of people affected rose to 150,552, while a further 1,257
remained temporarily housed in Civil Defense shelters.

The hurricane hit the northeastern tip of Nicaragua on Sept. 4 with
260-kph winds, making it a Category Five (maximum) on the
Saffir-Simpson scale.

Several communities in that area hit by Felix were totally wiped out,
while damage to the BosawC!s environmental reserve was incalculable.

Ortega, who has twice toured the affected areas, noted that figures are
still preliminary, because the fate of inhabitants in a dozen villages
that were cut off by the storm is still unknown.

The RAAN is a vast, isolated region in the northern Nicaraguan
Caribbean inhabited mostly by Miskito, Mayagna and Sumo indigenous
people, and was declared a state of disaster by Ortega after the
catastrophic outcome of Felix.

Translated by Granma International
 

 
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