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This Tuesday, President Iván Duque arrived in San Andrés, affected by Hurricane Iota, after taking a tour of some streets of that city, and boarded another aircraft to continue to Providencia, the area most affected by the weather phenomenon, and arrived at around 1:30 pm
(Can read: Duque already evidenced the destruction left by the hurricane in Providencia)
The president said that before landing in San Andrés they flew over Providencia, in which they were able to see the damage left by the hurricane: homes destroyed, as well as commerce and the rest of the infrastructure.
From the air, in an overflight, the first images of the island were recorded, which is isolated.
(Don’t miss out on reading: Live: this is the emergency in San Andrés and Providencia due to a hurricane)
President Duque already flew over Providencia this Tuesday morning.
The president meets with the government team, including the Housing Ministers, Jonathan Malagón; Health, Fernando Ruiz; Mines and Energy; Diego Mesa; ICT, Karen Abudinen; the Director of the National Unit for Disaster Risk Management, Eduardo José González; the Director of Social Prosperity, Susana Correa; the Councilor for the Regions, Ana María Palau, and the Governor in charge of the archipelago department, Alen Jay Stephens.
The preliminary balance is that there is a person who has died and there is a missing person, but the president warned that the total number of wounded is not certain.
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Thus, initially the head of state, aboard the FAC-001 plane and coming from Cartagena, flew over the islands of Providencia and Santa Catalina.
Later, he landed in San Andrés, where he toured the island’s coastal area, spoke with the community, and met with his government team.
In this first meeting, the Presidency indicated that the President gave precise instructions for some of the officials to accompany him on a Providencia flight and others to stay ahead of the meeting of the Unified Command Post (PMU), at the National Navy Base, whose The purpose is to evaluate the effects caused by the hurricane on this island.Immediately afterwards, President Duque left, aboard a Casa plane, in which humanitarian aid was mobilized, for the islands of Providencia and Santa Catalina.
This is the group of government officials who attend the emergency.
Stronger than its predecessor, Iota made landfall as a Category 5 hurricane, the strongest, with maximum winds of 260 km / h hour, according to a report from the United States National Hurricane Center (NHC), but then began to lose strength.
It should be remembered that the Colombian Air Force transported more than 36 tons of aid for the population of San Andrés in the last hours on the ‘Jupiter’ plane, within the framework of the “Helping does us good” campaign.
(We suggest: Providencia was devastated after the passage of Hurricane Iota)
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