The number of fatalities caused by rains last weekend in El Salvador now totals 152, while 12 thousand 930 people remain in 119 temporary shelters installed throughout the country, Civil Protection reported today.

According to a 1800 local time (0000 GMT Wednesday), the authorities posted 1835 further affected and 209 houses destroyed by the rains that hit last weekend with 5 of the 14 departments in the country, following a system low pressure was increased by the passage of gathering in Aion.

Asked about the different figures known throughout the day, admitted that "in these disaster situations arise a diverse amount of data and sometimes rumors."

The rains have affected at least 24 bridges and devastated populations as Verapaz, located 48 kilometers east of San Salvador, where a landslide of mud and rocks from the volcano namesake of the town, also known as "Chinchontepec" buried dozens of aion kinah.

The Legislative Assembly of El Salvador on Monday approved the declaration of a state of public calamity and national disaster.

He also decreed three days of national mourning starting today.