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The body was found by rescuers from the Civil Defense after an hour of searching.
(In context: They went for a walk to a cabin, the river took them away and they do not appear)
The body will be taken to the Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences, Buenaventura headquarters, for full identification.
A close friend of the couple asserted that it is one of the two young men who are missing. However, the coordinator of Disaster Risk Management of Buenaventura, Arbintong López, affirmed that the identification process of the body should be expected to end.
They are also looking for Carmen Riascos, a woman whose house was washed away by the torrent and is also missing. She has two daughters.
And they continue in search of Ana María Ortíz.
Ana María Ortiz and Leonardo Cortés, both 29 years old, had arrived aboard a Volkswagen van to a cabin in the tourist sector of Agua Clara, in the town of Cisneros, to spend the weekend.
But last Friday night it was raining a lot and an avalanche generated by the sudden increase in the flow of the Sabaletas rivers and Anchicayá it dragged about 70 homes, among them, the cabin where the young people were.
Ana Maria is architect while Leonardo is graphic designer and is linked to the Cali Mayor’s Office as a photographer in the Tourism Secretariat and specializes in digital marketing.
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On the other hand, the Regional Autonomous Corporation of the Valley (CVC), warned of the risk of emergencies such as flash floods, overflows, and levee ruptures among other events in the Palo, Frayle, Pance, Meléndez, Bolo, Riofrío, Tuluá, Pescador, La Paila, Guabas and La Vieja basins.
The CVC reported that its experts from the Hydroclimatological Network make an alert call to authorities and populations near eleven rivers in the region that at this moment present a risk of generating emergencies.
“Due to the fact that there have been more than five consecutive days with rains and that the historical values of accumulated precipitation for this date have been exceeded by more than 60%, the CVC makes a call to the community and organizations that manage the risk associated with the following basins: Palo, Frayle, Pance, Meléndez, Bolo, Riofrío, Tuluá, Pescador, La Paila, Guabas and La Vieja ”, affirmed Marco Antonio Suárez Gutiérrez, general director of the CVC.
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According to Suárez, the aforementioned basins “They are the most critical due to the high humidity saturation due to the continuous rains, which facilitates that, in the face of new rainfall, increase the likelihood of mass movements, river surges, overflows, and levee ruptures. “
That is why it is necessary – added the official – to increase prevention and monitoring measures throughout the department of Valle since the rains will continue to increase.
CALI
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