Chile: 'One dead, seven missing by heavy rainfall in Santiago
Torrential rains brought great disasters in central Chile, leaving in their wake a dead, seven missing and millions without drinking water after landslides and overflowing rivers.
A woman was killed in a landslide in the valley of San José de Maipo, a mountainous region southeast of the capital Santiago, while the police suspended the investigation for three people who went missing in landslide in the same area until sunrise today, expected more rainfall.
A total of seven people missing, 95 houses have been severely damaged and some 80,000 people have been left without electricity, said the Chilean crisis management office, ONEM.
Over the past four days, the level of rainfall reached 80 mm, about five times the amount that usually falls around April, said Cristobal Torres, meteorologist with the state weather bureau.
The forecast for today is fine rain will stop tomorrow morning, Torres said.
Soil and objects swept away by the surrounding Andes Mountains into the drinking water system of Santiago.
Torrential rains brought great disasters in central Chile, leaving in their wake a dead, seven missing and millions without drinking water after landslides and overflowing rivers.
A woman was killed in a landslide in the valley of San José de Maipo, a mountainous region southeast of the capital Santiago, while the police suspended the investigation for three people who went missing in landslide in the same area until sunrise today, expected more rainfall.
A total of seven people missing, 95 houses have been severely damaged and some 80,000 people have been left without electricity, said the Chilean crisis management office, ONEM.
Over the past four days, the level of rainfall reached 80 mm, about five times the amount that usually falls around April, said Cristobal Torres, meteorologist with the state weather bureau.
The forecast for today is fine rain will stop tomorrow morning, Torres said.
Soil and objects swept away by the surrounding Andes Mountains into the drinking water system of Santiago.
Around four million people were left without water and authorities asked residents to gather drinking water, emptying the shelves in city stores of water bottles.
The downpours also forced and international mining company Anglo American and state producer Codelco to shut down two central copper mines which together are responsible for the production of 880,000 tonnes of copper per year.
Many schools in Santiago and neighboring coastal cities have suspended classes for today, while the roads in some parts of the city flooded by water after the river overflowed Mapotso.
Chile, the biggest copper exporter worldwide, has suffered from many natural disasters such as an earthquake in September 2015 and floods in March of the same year, which forced the two large mining companies to cease operating.
While smaller mines remained operational, Codelco, first global copper producer, said late Saturday that the mine sleep in El Teniente for three days would cost the company about 5,000 tons of production.
Most copper mines of Chile are in the northern desert, who has not been affected by the bad weather.
Torrential rains brought great disasters in central Chile, leaving in their wake a dead, seven missing and millions without drinking water after landslides and overflowing rivers.
A woman was killed in a landslide in the valley of San José de Maipo, a mountainous region southeast of the capital Santiago, while the police suspended the investigation for three people who went missing in landslide in the same area until sunrise today, expected more rainfall.
A total of seven people missing, 95 houses have been severely damaged and some 80,000 people have been left without electricity, said the Chilean crisis management office, ONEM.
Over the past four days, the level of rainfall reached 80 mm, about five times the amount that usually falls around April, said Cristobal Torres, meteorologist with the state weather bureau.
The forecast for today is fine rain will stop tomorrow morning, Torres said.
Soil and objects swept away by the surrounding Andes Mountains into the drinking water system of Santiago.
Torrential rains brought great disasters in central Chile, leaving in their wake a dead, seven missing and millions without drinking water after landslides and overflowing rivers.
A woman was killed in a landslide in the valley of San José de Maipo, a mountainous region southeast of the capital Santiago, while the police suspended the investigation for three people who went missing in landslide in the same area until sunrise today, expected more rainfall.
A total of seven people missing, 95 houses have been severely damaged and some 80,000 people have been left without electricity, said the Chilean crisis management office, ONEM.
Over the past four days, the level of rainfall reached 80 mm, about five times the amount that usually falls around April, said Cristobal Torres, meteorologist with the state weather bureau.
The forecast for today is fine rain will stop tomorrow morning, Torres said.
Soil and objects swept away by the surrounding Andes Mountains into the drinking water system of Santiago.
Around four million people were left without water and authorities asked residents to gather drinking water, emptying the shelves in city stores of water bottles.
The downpours also forced and international mining company Anglo American and state producer Codelco to shut down two central copper mines which together are responsible for the production of 880,000 tonnes of copper per year.
Many schools in Santiago and neighboring coastal cities have suspended classes for today, while the roads in some parts of the city flooded by water after the river overflowed Mapotso.
Chile, the biggest copper exporter worldwide, has suffered from many natural disasters such as an earthquake in September 2015 and floods in March of the same year, which forced the two large mining companies to cease operating.
While smaller mines remained operational, Codelco, first global copper producer, said late Saturday that the mine sleep in El Teniente for three days would cost the company about 5,000 tons of production.
Most copper mines of Chile are in the northern desert, who has not been affected by the bad weather.
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