Since May, at least 28 people have died in Guatemala during the rainy season, most of them due to landslides, according to the ambulance service.

And the Coordinating Agency for Disaster Reduction (CONRID) announced in a report that ten victims died as a result of landslides in the indigenous area of ​​Alta Verapaz (North). The victims were a mother and six of her children, as well as three minor brothers and sisters.

“The administrative region most affected by the rains is Izabal,” said government spokesman Rodolfo Garcia.

According to the report, landslides were also recorded in the administrative region of Guatemala, where the capital is located, as well as in Alta Verapaz (north) and Retalullo (south).

According to the spokesman, 326 people have been evacuated.

The worst-affected areas are those populated primarily by indigenous peoples who are the most vulnerable to natural disasters.

Almost 60% of Guatemala’s 17 million people live below the poverty line.

In 2021, the rains killed 35 people, left three missing, injured seventeen and affected about 1.5 million people. About 12 thousand people were evacuated.

The rainy season, which runs from May to November, kills hundreds of people every year in Central America, one of the regions most vulnerable to climate change.