The Minister of COPECO, Lisandro Rosales, reported that rescue teams moved to the disaster zone and, “found about 500 feet of collapsed earth, which, thank God, did not cause human casualties.”

She said about 15 people were in two houses in the area of collapse, and refused to leave the premises, but were finally convinced to evacuate.

Rosales said that although today it was not raining in central Honduras, the soil is saturated by large amounts of water that fell in the country in recent months. She stated that they are maintaining a red alert for five departments in the country, near the high flowing rivers of Ulúa, Chamelecón and Choluteca; a yellow alert is in effect for the rest of the country.