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The search for Mishel, only 12 years old, continued on the morning of this Wednesday, March 16, in Loja. Members of various rescue institutions participated and there was the help of more heavy machinery, while her mother, Miriam de Ella, watched in the hope of finding her.
The minor was with her grandmother doing housework outside her house when the floodwaters of the Chinguilanchi creek swept away everything it could, and dragged the girl.
A heavy rain loaded with thunder and lightning surprised Lojanos on the afternoon of Tuesday, March 15. Due to this, several sectors of all the cardinal points were affected by floods, however, the worst was in the Chinguilanchi and Estancia Norte sectors.
The search for Mishel was suspended around 10:00 p.m. on Tuesday, for the safety of the search teams, due to the lack of lighting and also due to the cold to which the rescuers were subjected. However, the relatives continued their search until 03:00. The minor was studying at the San Francisco school and at the time of the tragedy she was helping her grandmother with housework.
An intense rain causes destruction in neighborhoods of Loja; a minor is missing
The alert was given when residents of the place called officials from the Fire Department. “The girl was close to her mommy (her grandmother), but she disappeared from one moment to another,” said one of the neighbors of the place.
“She hits her (grandmother), despite the fact that she sent her home, but the girl asked to accompany her, she slips, falls and the water carries her, her mommy no longer saw her,” another neighbor said through tears.
Carlos Cajilima, uncle of the missing minor, said that the grandmother and the girl went down to see the piggy bank of their house to rule out that the downpour had affected the animals.
“The girl stands on a mound that has already been eaten away by water, and then she falls and is washed away. Granny also falls and manages to grab onto a willow tree that fell down,” she commented.
More than a hundred people from various institutions gathered since Tuesday afternoon to try to find the body of the minor. Two dogs were taken to the place to sniff and find signs of the girl, the same ones that pointed out two places where the excavation insisted.
“The minor’s family has the logistical support of all government entities. The search will continue until it is found, all logistical aid for this family is being coordinated,” said Governor Mario Mancino. He added that an emergency declaration for the canton is being evaluated.
Mayor Patricia Picoita informed that the cleaning of all the sectors that have been affected by the floods will continue.
A command post was installed in the place by the Risk Management Secretariat, to coordinate the actions that allow all the protagonists to act in the evacuation of water, mud and debris, to find the whereabouts of the missing minor.
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The same ravine flooded the La Inmaculada neighborhood meters below, where more than a dozen houses received the full force of the water, accompanied by mud, stone material and debris, which damaged furnishings and furnishings.
The streets of this neighborhood were completely flooded, including the facilities of the Fire Department, located in the citadel itself.
Another of the sectors that was seriously affected by the overflow of the Zamora River was the Riberas del Río citadel, in the Amable María sector, where several houses were flooded because they are no less than 50 meters away. “However, the large amount of water reached our houses, everything was flooded,” said one of the inhabitants.
The cantonal COE met extraordinarily after 9:00 p.m. on Tuesday, to designate four fronts that comprise the technical area, search in siphons and river, technical tables for monitoring the streams whose slopes originate in the eastern and western sectors. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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