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The capital's municipal risk office warns that almost 70% of Tegucigalpa faces vulnerability to landslides, flooding, or subsidence, with 1,528 identified high-risk sites and over 600,000 residents living in 730 at-risk neighborhoods.

Tegucigalpa's city government (AMDC) launched a cleanup operation on World Cleanup Day following storms that struck the capital on Saturday.

The Tegucigalpa municipal government suspended the Capital Fest festival scheduled for this weekend due to a red drought alert and yellow rain alert affecting the capital, citing public safety as the priority.

The Tegucigalpa municipal government has identified 763 neighborhoods at high risk from heavy rains and flooding, with 225 communities particularly vulnerable to inundation from the Choluteca River, and plans to invest about L700 million (roughly $28 million) this year in prevention infrastructure.

City authorities and disaster officials launched a technical investigation into a hillside collapse on the Tegucigalpa ring road that killed three workers and damaged warehouses, aiming to determine the cause and prevent similar disasters.