Moderators Moderator_02 Posted April 28, 2018 Moderators Share Posted April 28, 2018 Quote Floods, landslides,rescue drama Posted on April 27, 2018 in Panama Post Views: 400 Torrential rain flooded many sectors of Panama City on Friday afternoon, April 27, bringing down trees, causing minor landslides stranding transit passengers and school buses and leading to a dramatic rescue of a woman driver whose car was swept into a ravine in San Miguelito. The National Civil System (Sinaproc) reported that they had had to assist several people, but the outstanding rescue came from three unidentified men who were part of a watching crowd as a car was picked up by flood waters and spun around on a road behind the station in San Miguelito. Videos of the car as it was dragged towards a roadside ravine before it plunged into fast flowing waters went viral on social networks. The three young men climbed down to the vehicle with its front in the torrent and rescued the woman driver through the back. The Joint Task Force attended flooded homes, fallen trees and minor landslides in the area known as La Rosita in Río Abajo, and in six streets of Parque Lefevre and sector 5 of Samaria Waiting for the bus The sewage system was blocked in the San Isidro Valley and three people trapped by the overflow of a ravine in Pueblo Nuevo were rescued by the Task Force. In other areas school buses were trapped in suddenly rising waters and people waiting for Metro buses used the benches to stand clear of the floods. http://www.newsroompanama.com/news/panama/floods-landslidesrescue-drama Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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