Tropical storm lashes Honduras
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"We will sign the decree on Monday so that regions identified as disaster areas can be helped using emergency measures," Callejas told a press conference in the northern city of San Pedro Sula.
Much of Honduras, especially the northern provinces of Cortes, Yoro, Colon, and Atlantida, Olancho and El Paraiso in the east and Choluteca to the south, has been battered by torrential rains and overflowing rivers as Tropical Depression Gert swept over the country. The death count from the storm was reported at 12 by Honduran Emergency Council (COPECO). Various radio stations and newspapers put the toll as high as 16. An estimated 35,000 have been left homeless, authorities said. Callejas said there were no estimates of the economic damage caused by Gert, but that important cultivation areas for bananas, the principal export, had been severely inundated. In Mexico, fishing activity was suspended in Campeche Sound on the southeastern coast and the ports of Campeche, Ciudad del Carmen, Dos Bocas and Frontera were closed as Gert spun northwards, the state news agency Notimex reported.
