27 people were killed and 67 others are still missing after a landslide buried a neighborhood in the city of Alose in southern Ecuador last week, according to a new report announced by the authorities on Saturday.
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A giant mountain section broke off Sunday night into Monday, March 27 and fell in a subdivision of this city of 45,000 in Chimborazo Province, about 300 kilometers south of Quito.
“27 people died after the landslide in #Alosi,” the Ecuadorean Public Prosecutor’s Office announced on Twitter, adding that it had “ordered the exhumation of two new bodies recently found under the rubble.”
In its latest report on Friday, the National Risk Management Trust (SNGR) recorded 38 injured, 67 missing and 850 people affected by the landslide.
“For the sixth day in a row, rescue teams continue to search for missing people,” the organization said on Saturday.
This sector has been on “yellow alert” since February due to the rains that hit the country since January.
Last week, Ecuador, hit by torrential rains that caused widespread flooding, declared a state of emergency in 13 of the country’s 24 provinces, to mobilize resources to help those affected.
