Baku-APA. The current flood affecting Paraguay have caused the evacuation of some 13,000 families from the banks of rivers Parana and Paraguay, the Secretary of National Emergency (SNE) said Wednesday, APA reports quoting Xinhua.
Some 60,000 people are being affected by the rivers' overflow, SNE operation director Aldo Saldivar said.
Floods affect several zones in Asuncion, capital of Paraguay, and some 1,000 families there have been evacuated and will remain displaced for at least 24 or 48 hours more, the SNE official said.
Paraguay's president-elect Horacio Cartes, who will be sworn- in on August 15, delivered aid to the affected people last Tuesday and urged officials to leave behind "speeches" on the issue and go inside "the action field."
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