Plane in which President Gustavo Petro was traveling was struck by lightning

The plane in which the president of Colombia was traveling, Gustavo Petroapparently he was struck by lightning when he was going to the department of Cauca (southwest) to attend to the emergency caused by a huge landslide, although “he was not at risk” neither his safety nor that of the entourage, the Presidency reported this Wednesday.

The FAC 0002 plane in which the president was traveling on Tuesday with the entourage to Popayan“in the first place, it could not land in said city due to heavy rains and visibility conditions of the runway,” detailed the information provided by the Petro office.

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After not being able to land in Popayán, the capital of Cauca, the aircraft diverted to Cali, “in the middle of the rain.”

“In that movement, it was possibly struck by lightning, which is why the aircraft was subjected to review”explained the Presidency, which also requested “a report from the Colombian Air Force (FAC) to find out details of possible effects.”

The Colombian chief executive shortened his official schedule in Chile on Tuesday, where he was on an official visit, due to the emergency that occurred on the Pan-American Highway, the main highway in southwestern Colombia, due to a landslide in the municipality of Rosas (Cauca ). The landslide, which interrupted traffic for about 3 kilometers of the highway, devastated several houses in the rural area of ​​La Soledad, leaving more than 700 homeless according to figures from the authorities.

So far there has been no loss of human life because the families were previously evacuated in an operation in which the FAC, the National Unit for Disaster Risk Management (Ungrd) and other organizations such as Civil Defense and the Red Cross intervened. .

Source: Elcomercio

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