Heavy rain accompanied by thunderstorms ended the life of a minor 13 years in the community of Rumipampa, in the district of Nuñoa, Province of Melgar (Fist). Also Ray He touched and injured another eight-year-old girl, who was taken to a health center in Ayaviri.

The event occurred on Sunday February 12, around 12:40 p.m. According to initial investigations, the victims were carrying out field work and grazing activities in the community.

Members of the Peruvian National Police arrived at the scene (PNP) as well as representatives of the national public prosecutor’s office, who performed the body removal procedures. Moreover, everything would indicate that a metal object would have attracted electrocution against minors.

An electric shock in Puno causes the death of a child. Reference photo: Andean

Five days ago, the death of four alpacas and damage in the quarters area of Macari, province of Melgar, and Capaso, province of El Collao, in Puno. The heavy hailstorm and electrical storm continued to affect the inhabitants of this region.

The Puno Regional Office for Disaster Risk Management and Security, through the Regional Center for Emergency Operations (COER), reported that the electric shocks had not caused any deaths so far.

Likewise, the hectares affected were the crops of barley, wheat, potato, cañihua and quinoa in the populated center of Santa Cruz and in the community of Selque. In this sense, the regional government is monitoring the situation in coordination with the Civil Defense.

Crops in Puno are threatened by electric shocks. Photo: Andean

The rains continue to affect the different regions; this time they caused flooding in some houses in Ayaviri town a week ago. Thus, 29 families were affected in the area of ​​Pueblo Libre, Nueva Esperanza, Kawachimachi; also, the intersections of the Suche and Arequipa, Atahualpa and Puno flaps.

The Provincial Municipality of Melgar carried out pumping and channeling work to evacuate the water stored in the various houses. While the town took care of the fumigation for sanitary measures.

The Energy and Mining Investment Monitoring Agency (Osinergmin) has provided some recommendations in the presence of heavy rains that have been reported in recent weeks in different regions. As recalled, this phenomenon was predicted to occur in 46 provinces.

Avoid contact with electronic devices or lower the general key of electrical energy in the presence of humidity.

Do not touch poles or trees that come into contact with electrical wiring.

Check the electrical connections in advance to avoid short circuits.

Ask a specialized technician to maintain the connections.

However, on many occasions, citizens are exposed to misconnected or broken wiring because companies do not carry out maintenance work. For this reason, he requested that they communicate and denounce the different communication channels.

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