EFE.- Three people are still missing and 80 families were evicted by the collapse of Cerro del Chiquihuite in the municipality of Tlalnepantla, in the Mexican capital, confirmed this Saturday the Government of the State of Mexico (center).
The authorities had reported 10 people missing after the landslide on Friday, when one person was confirmed dead, but the undersecretary of the Government of the State of Mexico, Ricardo de la Cruz, told the media that the only thing left to do was locate a woman and her two minor children. old.
“We have a detected family that tells us that they can have three relatives in there, a number of 10 has been handled, but we only have identified three people who could be there, we don’t have to handle upward numbers,” the state official said to the press.
The collapse occurred around 2.30pm (7.30pm GMT), when tons of earth began to break off, leaving three houses buried.
560 people from the federal, state and municipal governments arrived at the site on Friday to support the rescue efforts, which were interrupted until Saturday afternoon by the rains.
The Tlalnepantla City Council has warned that the risk persists, so it asked 80 families near the disaster area to vacate their homes because the area is “high risk.”
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For this they have enabled five shelters, said the secretary of the City Council, Miguel Ángel Bravo.
“Very respectfully ask all the families, all the victims, and all the people who are near these risk areas, to approach the shelters that we have set up with confidence,” he said.
The rescue work involves the National Coordination of Civil Protection, the Secretariat of the Navy (Semar) and the Secretariat of National Defense (Sedena) with canine brigades.
The landslide, which still does not have an official explanation, has caused a national commotion because it occurred in a marginalized area that was born as an irregular settlement.
The neighbors had already alerted the authorities of possible risks of landslides in the area, which even appears in the official Risk Atlases due to its dangerousness.
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Now, Civil Protection of Tlalnepantla has deployed more than 100 specialists for technical analysis of the area.