The Nicaraguan Red Cross (CRN) reported on Wednesday it has found nine new bodies, bringing the total killed there by Hurricane Felix to 12, CRN rescue chief Alejandro Morales told media.
"As we push out to the more distant communities in the RAAN region, we will find unimaginable damage," Morales said on Wednesday. "We are estimating 90 percent of homes destroyed in this region because of Felix's fury."
Wednesday's dead were found by the CRN in Puerto Cabezas, the Nicaraguan municipality that suffered worst from the Hurricane.
Nicaraguan state civil defense authorities had already reported three deaths in the North Atlantic Autonomous Region (RAAN) that surrounds Puerto Cabezas. The authorities also said 38,000 had been made homes, 13,000 had been evacuated and 5,400 homes had been seriously damaged.
Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega had already declared a "state of disaster" after Felix, then a category five hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale with 260 kph winds, struck RAAN 557 km northeast of Nicaragua capital Managua. He also declared a green alert over the rest of the nation.
Source: Xinhua
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