Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Advertisement At least 124 people have been killed in El Salvador by flooding and landslides following days of heavy rain, the government says. President Mauricio Funes has declared a national emergency, describing the damages as "incalculable". The capital San Salvador and central San Vicente province were the hardest-hit regions, officials say. Local reporter Juan Carlos Barahona says San Vicente is virtually cut off by landslides and collapsed bridges. Mr Barahona, of the El Salvador daily La Prensa Grafica, told the BBC that the other worst affected areas were La Libertad, La Paz and Cuscatlan. The images that we have seen today are of a devastated country
El Salvador's President Mauricio Funes
In pictures: El Salvador floods Interior Minister Humberto Centeno said 60 people were still missing, and about 7,000 more were in shelters. In the town of San Vicente rescue workers pulled bodies from the wreckage of houses. "We rescued a man this morning who had fractures, and a little girl," resident Cristian Aguilar told Reuters news agency. "My son and I crossed through the floodwater and brought them here, and now she is with her parents." The rains also triggered massive rock slides from the Chichontepec volcano that buried a number of houses in the town of Verapaz, also in San Vicente province, officials said. A local police officer told the Associated Press: "The weather continues to be bad, and we already have a river flowing through the village due to a landslide. We are worried things will get worse if the rains continue." Large parts of El Salvador are without electricity or clean water and remain cut off from government aid, the BBC's Latin American correspondent Will Grant reports. He says that this is easily the biggest crisis the government of Mr Funes has had to face since coming to office five months ago. News of the deaths came as Hurricane Ida, which has now strengthened to a category two storm, was poised to enter the Gulf of Mexico. However, Ida, which passed to the east of El Salvador three days ago, is not thought to have directly caused the severe rains. The BBC's weather centre said El Salvador's rains were mainly caused by a separate low pressure system in the Pacific. Are you in El Salvador? Have you been affected by the floods? Send us your stories using the form below. You can also send us your pictures and videos of the flooding to yourpics@bbc.co.uk or text them to +44 7725 100 100. If you have a large file you can upload here. Read the terms and conditions At no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe any laws. A selection of your comments may be published, displaying your name and location unless you state otherwise in the box below. Name
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Forecast track map of Ida
Flooding caused by torrential rain over several days has killed at least 91 people in El Salvador, according to officials. Sixty are still missing, more than 7,000 are in temporary accommodation and authorities expect to find more bodies. This brings the total up from the 50 reported earlier today.

The sea level has risen up to 1.2 metres (four feet) in some regions. "Unfortunately we have to report the number of dead has increased because of the rains, we now count 50 individuals," said Jorge Melendez, head of El Salvador's civil protection service. 

The government has declared a state of emergency in five regions in El Salvador after three days of rain, according to Interior Minister Humberto Centeno. He listed the capital San Salvador and the San Vicente department as the hardest-hit regions.

Hurricane Ida over Nicaragua.

Rescue workers pulled bodies from collapsed buildings. "We rescued a man this morning who had fractures, and a little girl," said local Cristian Aguilar. "My son and I crossed through the floodwater and brought them here, and now she is with her parents."  

There are conflicting reports as to whether Hurricane Ida is responsible for the flooding, with a spokesman for the United States National Hurricane Center (NHC) in Florida attributing the rain to a separate, low pressure system.

Forecasters have warned that flooding may hit Cuba, and the NHC said that they expect Ira to produce "large and destructive waves", with flash floods and mudslides in Central America and the Caribbean. The NHC also warns that Ida could reach the US's Gulf Coast by Tuesday.

On Thursday, Ida reached 120kph (75mph), making it a Category 1 hurricane—the lowest level on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale, a five-level scale that measures a hurricane's intensity and potential for destruction—causing flooding in Nicaragua leaving thousands of people homeless. No casualties were reported.