Flooding has occurred in the city of cumanacoa, sucre state due to heavy rainfall as a result of Hurricane Beryl causing the area's Manzanares River to overflow.
So far officials are reporting two deaths, five missing, 25,000 people affected and another 10 areas (barrio blanco, la pomalaca, las trincheras, las fraguas, las tinajitas, avenida antonio josé de sucre, el terrero and guatapanare) badly impacted.
The category 5 hurricane had maximum sustained winds of 270 km per hour as it moved at 35 km per hour across Venezuela and other parts of the Caribbean.
Related Resources:
EUMETSAT case study of Hurricane Beryl