In addition, thousands of people are without electricity, the rivers are overflowing and several trees and a bridge have been overturned by the storm. The whole territory remains alert.
Euskaraz irakurri: Pertsona bat hil da eta 800dik gora lekualdatu behar izan dituzte Dominikar Errepublikan urakanaren ondorioz
Hurricane Fiona has caused the death of a 72-year-old man this Monday and 789 people had to be displaced from their homes in the Dominican Republic. The fatal accident occurred in the municipality of Nagua (northeast of the country), when the man tried to prune a tree in the patio of his house when it fell on him, as reported by the director of civil defense in that city, Franklin Taveras.
Besides, the hurricane has left to more than 11,500 people without powerflooding rivers, the collapse of a bridge near the Duarte highway — which has the largest influx of traffic in the country — and the downing of trees and power lines, according to a preliminary report from the Emergency Operations Center (COE).
The consequences of the meteorological phenomenon, category 1 on the Saffir-Simpson scale on a scale of up to 5, led the Executive to declare emergency zone the provinces most affected by the rain and wind related to the hurricane: La Altagracia, La Romana, El Seibo, Hato Mayor and Monte Plata, in the east, and María Trinidad Sánchez, Duarte and Samaná, in the northeast .
Dominican President Luis Abinader announced at a press conference this Monday that he will move today, September 20, to one of the areas most damaged by the hurricane, La Altagracia, where one of two surgery centers will be installed to the needs caused by Fiona, the first hurricane to hit this Caribbean country in eighteen years.
predictions for today
Authorities predict that the storm will continue to hit the country in the areas hardest hit by the hurricane and that conditions warn the whole areaincluding the Dominican capital and province, where rain has had minimal impact.
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Source: EITB
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