Africa-Press – Angola. The National Civil Protection and Fire Service (SNPCB) recorded, in 2021, in Luanda province, 112 cases of drowning deaths, 66 less compared to the previous year.
The data were made public yesterday by the spokesman for the Luanda Provincial Command of the SNPCB, fire chief Faustino Minguês, adding that the drownings were recorded on beaches, rivers, lakes, river water retention basins, the Kikuxi channel and reservoirs.
Faustino Minguês said that the victims are mostly children between 1 and 13 years old, who usually drown in rainwater retention tanks and basins.
According to the official, the municipalities with the most records are Viana with 28 cases (-25 compared to the previous year), Luanda with 32 (-30), Talatona with 17 (-9) and Ca-cuaco with 13 ( +1) throttling, respectively.
Faustino Minguês said that in the last week four bodies were rescued on beaches, lakes and inside the basement of a flooded building.
He stated that, despite the ban on the use of beaches, due to the State of Public Calamity, citizens continue to frequent them, with recent cases of drowning taking place over the weekend, during which two corpses were rescued on the beaches of Luanda and Mussulo Island.
He stressed that, due to the State of Calamity, patrols are not carried out or the presence of lifeguards on the beaches, but constant campaigns are carried out, mainly in peripheral neighborhoods, to warn about the care of water reservoirs, the Kikuxi channel, rivers and lakes.
Due to the lack of domestic water, most residents of peripheral neighborhoods have underground tanks in their backyards to reserve water, supplied by tanker trucks, with frequent deaths from drowning.
With more than seven million inhabitants, the municipalities of Luanda, Cacuaco, Viana, Kilamba Kiaxi, Talatona, Belas, Icolo and Bengo and Quiçama are part of the Angolan capital.
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