The city became destroyed .. 13 people were killed by heavy rains in Argentina

At least 13 people died in Argentina as a result of heavy rains that fell since Friday morning on the coastal city of Bahia Blanca, 600 km southwest of Pinos Aires.
Eleven of the thirteen dead were identified. The Municipal Council did not rule out other deaths in this city, which has a population of 350,000.

Destroyer

In an interview with a local radio, National Security Minister Patricia Bolrich said that Bahia Blanca is a “destroyed city” and that the search is underway for two young girls “washed away by water.”
The Argentine press reported that they are two years old and four years old.
The work was still going on on Saturday afternoon to evacuate about 850 people, according to the city council. According to the authorities, 400 mm in the area fell in eight hours, equivalent to what is usually falling within a year.

The biggest storm

“This is unprecedented,” said Javier Alonso. He added: “The largest storm in Bahia Blanca returns to the year 1930, with 175 mm (from the fallacy).”
The government released 10 billion peso (8.6 million euros) in the form of emergency aid.

Climate change

“This is a clear example of climate change” that “highlights through extremist weather phenomena in which cases such as heavy rains and the like occur, which are also evident in unprecedented floods in some areas.”

“We have no choice but to prepare cities, educate citizens, create effective early warning systems and act accordingly,” Dfurg, also the director of the environmental policies of the city of Itozayngo, near the Argentine capital, told AFP.

Climate catastrophe

For his part, doctor Eduardo Siminara told C5 that television is from his clinic that the floods swept, “unfortunately, nothing remains.”
The municipality stressed that “we cannot exclude the possibility of a greater number of victims due to the size of the climatic disaster.”

Heavy rains

By midday, the municipality reported that “a large part of the city was under water” after “seven hours of continuous heavy rains” that receded by back.
“The rain has stopped,” the mayor of Bahia Blanca, Federico Sussybelis, said in a video on X that “the rain has stopped”, but waters are not impeded to reach the arrival of people to different parts of the city. He pointed out that electricity was cut off from the city “for security reasons.”

rescue operations

With the help of the army, with the help of the army, the army of infants from the newborns at the Jose Pina Hospital, the largest hospital in the city.
The Bahia Blanca municipality canceled all activities in the city on Friday and called on residents to stay in their homes until further notice, and allowed “to move with heavy mechanisms exclusively”, in preparation for the rescue operations.
Bahia Blanca Airport closed another notice.

Harsh climatic events

The “LN+” channel conducted an interview with a resident of Bahia Blanca from a truck that she resorted to with her children when she saw the water escalating in the street and then at her home.
“We put dogs on the roof, but the children in the truck have stayed inside. There is still about a meter of water, and we are waiting for the water to decrease so that we can go to a safer place,” said Flavit Vieira Romero. “All neighbors went up to the roofs of the houses.”
The city has previously witnessed harsh climatic events. At the end of 2023, a violent storm accompanied by heavy rains and winds up to 150 km/h, killing thirteen people, when the ceiling of a sports club collapsed.