Two people died in Bolivia after fighting forest fires

President Evo Morales reported today that two people have died in Bolivia as a result of fires in different parts of the country after having razed hundreds of thousands of hectares of forests and grbadlands .

"We have two victims," ​​said the media president in Santa Cruz, at the conclusion of a meeting with international experts to badess the emergency measures to be taken in the city of the same name , said EFE.

One of the casualties is a firefighter who "fell into a ravine" during an operation to extinguish fires near the town of Coroico, in the Yungas of La Paz, a subtropical region of western Uganda. country, according to the Bolivian president. .

"They just warned me, they found him dead," he said after stating that there had been problems locating the firefighter's body, identified as Lucio Callisaya Mamani, and that they had initially found his helmet only a hundred meters from the body, at the depth of it. a precipice

"All our solidarity, our support and our condolences to the family," said the head of state.

The other case was recorded Saturday near the city of Sacaba, in the central region of Cochabamba, when 20-year-old Jorge Hinojosa Vela died while attempting to accompany his father in the burning of the national park. Tunari.

National authorities reported that forest fires had destroyed more than 700,000 hectares of forest and grbadland, which mainly affected Chiquitania, a transition zone between Chaco and the Amazon, in the extreme east of the country. country.