The Center for Emergency Operations (COE) said that it would reveal the assistance, traffic accidents, drownings, and death toll of the Easter Week operations on Monday, 17 April 2017 in a press conference scheduled for 11am. Around 41,000 staff and volunteers participated in actions to prevent crime and accidents from Easter Thursday to Easter Sunday.
Reporters shared the good news that the seasonal demand for Easter Week services at major trauma hospitals was much reduced. Meanwhile, Diario Libre gave a preliminary report of 28 deaths nationwide, including six persons who drowned.
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Diario Libre
CDN
17 April 2017