Boat capsizes and claims the life of a family in Nicaragua

Of the children died and another five people are missing, including four minors, when a boat capsized in a river in the Caribbean of Nicaragua, reported this Saturday the National System for the Prevention, Mitigation and Attention of Disasters (Sinapred).

The event it happened on friday morning, on the Rama River, one of the largest in the Southern Caribbean Autonomous Region (RACS), in a sparsely inhabited area, which is why it was not immediately known, according to the official version.

According to the testimonies of the survivors, the accident occurred an hour after the boat set sail, when its captain, Juan Carlos Ojeda, mistook a log for a crocodile and, realizing the error, it turned abruptly, causing the boat to overturn, in which 22 people were traveling.

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The bodies of two children were recovered immediately for the survivors.

Four minors between the ages of 3 and 13, as well as a girl of 23, remain missing, indicated Sinapred. “Most likely they drowned, although the bodies have not been found,” added the institution.

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The castaways they were part of the same peasant family that last Thursday he had spent the night in El Rama, a city located 291 kilometers east of Managua and headquarters of the main port of Nicaragua bound for the Caribbean Sea.

The family, what I attended a birthday, is originally from the rural community San Jerónimo, located on the banks of the Río Plata.

Rivers are the main communication routes in the Caribbean region of Nicaragua, which is also the poorest and most isolated area of ​​the Central American country. (I)