Daniel Passerini, the social Development Minister of Córdoba province, has said that 1,500-1,600 people remain evacuated as a result of the floods that have ravaged several provincial areas over the past days.
According to the minister, Idiazábal – located in south east Córdoba – was the most affected locality where all inhabitants were forced to leave their houses.
The mayor there Eliberto Favalli, one of the few people who have stayed in the town, said today the situation “continues to be critic.”
“The mayor’s office is under water. The town is walling up trying to avoid the water from entering massively,” Favalli explained adding aquifers were up over the “surface.”
Despite the gravity of the situation in eastern areas, rains stopping and works conducted by emergency and assistance teams have led Córdoba’s Public Administration Minister Manuel Calvo to consider the scenario was expected to improve.
In the meantime, search groups were continuing to look for a man who went missing on Tuesday in a rural area of the locality of El Fortín after falling off a horse into a canal with the flow of water dragging him away.
The man has been identified as José Daniel Ávila, a 46-year-old rural worker who was riding his horse along with his 17-year-old daughter when the accident took place.
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