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http://www.terra.com.ni/04/09/2007 - 21:42 (GMT)
Managua, 4 sep (ACAN-EFE) - Three deceaseds, ten injured, a disappear, severe material damages and 13,000 evacuees has left to the hurricane "Felix" to its pass today by Nicaragua, according to a report disclosed this late by civil employees of the government.
The representative of the Government in the Caribbean, Lumberto Campbell, during a meeting of work with president Daniel Ortega, informed that the population affected by the meteor, according to preliminary data, is of 38,000 people.
The source indicated that 5,500 houses have been damaged and that in the North Caribbean of the country there are communities with a 80 percent of the houses without ceiling, by the violence of winds of up to 260 kilometers per hour of the cyclone.
Campbell said that a girl new born passed away by cold in the shelter to which she was evacuated with his mother, in a temple moravo of Port Heads, capital of the North Caribbean of Nicaragua.
"the mother of the girl did not shelter it very well, neglected and the girl perished", confirmed to Acan-Efe the lieutenant colonel Alvaro Rivas of the Civil defense, that considered to the minor like an indirect victim of the hurricane.
The other passed away person is a man who repaired the ceiling of his house damaged by the cyclone, and the third mortal victim has been a person who perished buried by her own house, that collapsed because of huracanados winds.
Campbell wrote down that hundreds of the 13,000 people evacuated already have left the 73 shelters and have begun to return to their homes of origin, after stopping the violence of winds.
The director of the Nicaraguan Institute of Territorial Studies (Ineter), Alexander Rodriguez, affirmed that "Felix" degraded itself to category two to its pass by Nicaragua and that he will enter limitrofe Honduras by the province of Olancho.
Rodriguez noticed that the cloud bands of the cyclone will originate rains of almost 400 millimeters, which does not discard will cause floods when crossing the territory from the Caribbean to the north of Nicaragua.
According to the preliminary report of the Civil defense, the coastal districts of Port Heads remain flooded and the current forts have returned impassable the access routes to the city.
The Nicaraguan authorities also report material damages, although nonvictims, in other communities of the North Caribbean.
In the municipality of Waspam and Cabo Thanks to God (border with Honduras) the local authorities asked for with urgency combustible and foods for almost 3,000 people.
The National Assembly today suspended its plenary session because of the passage of the hurricane, whose "eye" passed by the country.
The legislators requested to reform the budget of the nation and to assign greater resources to the zones affected by the hurricane.
Before the arrival of the cyclone, the government of Nicaragua decreed alerts red (of answer), for the North Caribbean, alerts yellow (of monitoring), for the South Caribbean, and alerts green (preventive), for the rest of the national territory. ACAN-EFE fm/lfp