Storm Prompts El Salvador,
Nicaragua Evacuations
(Reuters) - One woman was killed and rescue
workers evacuated some 2,000 people in El
Salvador and Nicaragua as a strengthening
low-pressure system threatened to become the
first named storm of the 2010 Pacific
hurricane season.
The system off the Pacific coasts of
Guatemala and southern Mexico dumped
torrential rain in Central America, swelling
rivers and damaging homes on Friday.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center said the
system would likely develop into a tropical
depression by Saturday and could become a
tropical storm as soon as Sunday.
A 48-year-old woman drowned after she was
swept away when trying to cross an
overflowing river in north-central
Nicaragua, said Colonel Gilberto Navarez,
the country's deputy director of civil
defense.
More than 150 people were killed in El
Salvador last November after Hurricane Ida
triggered massive flooding and landslides. |
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