Support and Rescue Teams Dispatched to Assist at Landslide in Guatemala JMR - The News
go to original October 5, 2015

Rescuers work in Santa Catarina Pinula, Guatemala, after a landslide. (Notimex)

Interior Secretary Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong sent humanitarian aid to the Cambray II neighborhood of the Santa Catarina Pinula municipality in Guatemala, following orders issued by President Enrique Peña Nieto. The region was affected by a landslide on Oct. 1.

Osorio also ordered the National Civil Protection Department to organize the support mission and rescue teams in Guatemala.

A total of 12 units from the National Defense Secretariat will participate in the mission, alongside 11 units from the Armed-Navy Secretariat, 32 federal police units, one representative of the Foreign Relations Secretariat (SRE) and 8 National Civil Protection Department units.

Moreover, 16 canine units provided by the Armed-Navy Secretariat and the federal police will also work on the relief effort.

The Embassy of Mexico managed and coordinated the mission alongside the Guatemalan authorities, in order to help workers have free and easy access to the scene of the disaster.

Read the rest at The News

We invite you to add your charity or supporting organizations' news stories and coming events to PVAngels so we can share them with the world. Do it now!