Four lifeless in landslide in Tahiti | EUROtoday

Four our bodies have been extracted from the rubble on Wednesday, November 27, in Tahiti, after a landslide which buried two homes, the general public prosecutor in French Polynesia, Solène Belaouar, advised Agence France-Presse (AFP). Four different individuals are lacking. The landslide occurred at daybreak within the village of Afaahiti, after per week of heavy rains.

“It’s a landslide 30 meters high. A first house was swept away and it was wedged into a second house”specified the High Commissioner of the Republic in French Polynesia, Alexandre Rochatte. “We were woken up, as if by a train right in front of the house, we went out and saw that a house was completely covered by earth and mud”a neighbor, Ida Labbeyi, advised AFP.

The search was suspended for a number of hours resulting from a brand new landslide. The our bodies have been discovered after rescue operations resumed. “We have two sites and we are moving very slowly with excavators, dogs, radar and an endoscopic camera, because at any time we can put weight on potential victims”declared Colonel Olivier Lhote, who instructions aid operations, throughout a press briefing.

The households and neighbors have been supported by a psychological unit. Twenty-nine homes have been evacuated, in accordance with the High Commission of the Republic in French Polynesia. Forty firefighters, 30 municipal cops, 20 gendarmes and 30 troopers from the Pacific-Polynesia marine infantry regiment, the SAMU, three drones and a military Dauphin helicopter are mobilized for rescue operations deliberate for forty-eight hours.