Video: houses collapsed in the Manrique neighborhood of Medellín and left three people injured

On the morning of this Saturday the inhabitants of Manrique neighborhood, in the northeast of MedellínThey were shocked after three houses located on Carrera 45 and Calle 82 partially collapsed.

As reported by Administrative Department of Disaster Risk Management (Dagrd), a recommendation had already been made for the buildings to be evacuated. The emergency left three injured and 11 people evacuated.

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The municipal Health Secretariat reported the care of the three injured and stressed that they are making progress in the technical inspection of the homes to verify the security conditions in the structure. From these homes, in addition to the injured and evacuated, a dog was rescued.

Alethia Arango Gil, director of Dagrd, explained that the emergency call was received at 7:30 in the morning of this Saturday through line 123.

This fact is in addition to other contingencies that occurred in the department of Antioquia, where the road to Urabá is closed due to several landslides and progress is being made in the search for 12 disappeared in the municipality of Dabeiba.

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The Municipal Council for Disaster Risk Management of Dabeiba, Antioquia, reported in the early hours of this Saturday, in a preliminary way, the death of three people and the disappearance of at least 12, in the middle of the emergency due to a landslide, after hours of heavy rains in the municipality.

Relief organizations that traveled to the site reported that the difficult conditions of the collapse have made it difficult to rescue and search for survivors.

“Since dawn our team has been going by land to Dabeiba to support the attention of various events due to rains. Another team will leave by helicopter to reach the places without access due to the landslides and to know the level of damage ”, said the department of disaster prevention of the department of Antioquia.

For his part, the mayor of the municipality, Leyton Urrego Durango, confirmed to La FM Radio that there were totally destroyed houses, which were washed away by the water and were buried under the rubble of mud and rocks.

“At this moment they confirm to us that we have a dead elderly adult, after being left among the ruins of his house, who came upon him”, detailed the mayor of Dabeiba.

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Aníbal Gaviria, Governor of Antioquia, posted on Twitter: “We are already leaving for Dabeiba to attend the emergency due to landslides. The director of DAPARD, Kike Gómez and the Secretary of Infrastructure Juan Pablo López are already there. Solidarity with the community and Mayor Leyton. UNITED we face this emergency ”.

On Thursday, November 12, the director of Ideam, Yolanda González, referred to the rains that have covered the majority of Colombian territory and answered how long this phenomenon will last. For the official, the regions of Arauca, Casanare and Norte de Santander, as well as some of the Caribbean They are on high alert due to the passage of a tropical wave that will keep the rains this month.