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(Reuters) — Dramatic images from El Salvador on Friday (July 07) of a helicopter rescuing a victim from a deadly fire in the country’s Finance Ministry building that killed at least two people. A major fire broke out in El Salvador’s Finance Ministry killing at least two people, injuring 22 others and prompting some inside to jump from the building before the blaze was extinguished, officials reported. The government sent in helicopters to rescue people […]
(Reuters) — A major fire broke out in El Salvador’s Finance Ministry on Friday (July 7) killing at least two people, injuring 22 others and prompting some inside to jump from the building before the blaze was extinguished, officials said. Salvador Sanchez Ceren, El Salvador’s President, said on local TV that one woman, a union worker, died, while another person had died in hospital. Three more people were in a bad state and being operated on, […]
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AFP) — A 5.1-magnitude earthquake killed at least one person and injured two others in El Salvador on Monday, officials said. The quake struck four kilometers (2.5 miles) below the surface at 2352 GMT in the town of Antiguo Cuscatlan near the capital, the environment ministry said on Twitter. The National Civil Police said a person was killed when a rock fell on their vehicle on a highway west of the […]
Can you build a house entirely made of plastic bottles? This 86-year old woman did it 12 years ago, and her house still stands strong in in the village of El Borbollon, El Transito, west of San Salvador, on March 14, 2017. She built her house in 2005, not with the usual bricks and cement, or wood, but with the use of plastic bottles which she recycled into this small house because she had no […]
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AFP) — El Salvador and Nicaragua on Thursday lifted a tsunami alert they had briefly declared following an offshore earthquake in the Pacific Ocean. Officials in both Central American countries said the 7.0 temblor, which occurred around 120 kilometers off El Salvador’s coast, did not generate any destructive waves. Nicaragua had declared a national emergency because of the quake and a simultaneous hurricane hitting its Caribbean coast. There were no immediate […]
SAN SALVADOR, EL Salvador (AFP) — A Pacific Ocean earthquake with a 7.0 magnitude shook El Salvador and Nicaragua on Thursday, officials said, an hour after a powerful hurricane hit Nicaragua’s Caribbean coast. Tsunami alerts were issued as a precaution by the authorities in Nicaragua and El Salvador, where residents were told to evacuate from the Pacific coast. The 7.0-magnitude temblor occurred around 120 kilometers (75 miles) off the coast of El Salvador, at a […]
By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) – A comparison of rates of Guillain-Barre syndrome before and after Zika arrived in seven countries has found a strong association between the virus and the illness, researchers from the Pan American Health Organization said on Wednesday. The current Zika outbreak was first detected in Brazil last year and has since spread across the Americas and the Caribbean. Pregnant women are considered to be at greatest risk because the […]
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AFP) — El Salvador on Tuesday confirmed its first case of microcephaly in a baby that was linked to a Zika infection in the mother. Microcephaly is a birth defect that causes an abnormally small head and deformed brain. Health Minister Violeta Menjivar said the infant was born in April to a family living in the country’s central La Paz province, and the Zika connection was proved “a short while ago.” […]
SAN DIEGO, El Salvador (AFP) — With larva-chomping fish and genetically modified insects, Latin Americans are deploying legions of little helpers to destroy mosquitoes carrying the Zika virus in the world’s latest mass health scare. Scientists are devising numerous ways to try and stamp out the mosquitoes whose bites spread the virus, which they suspect can cause brain damage in babies and paralysis in adults. Some want to wipe out baby mosquito larvae in standing […]
Alfredo Pacheco, a soccer player who played for the Salvadoran national side before being banned from the sport for life for his involvement in match fixing, was murdered on Sunday (December 28). Thirty-three-year-old Pacheco was with a group of friends chatting in a gas station when an unknown assailant shot at the group various times, authorities said. Two other people were injured and were taken to a nearby hospital in the city of Santa Ana, […]
