El Salvador death toll jumps to 124: Funes

SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - The death toll from flooding and mudslides in El Salvador triggered by the passage of Hurricane Ida jumped to 124 people, Salvadoran President Mauricio Funes said in a national radio broadcast.

Funes described the disaster as "a tragedy" and said the damage sustained by the Central American country was "incalculable."

(Reporting by Nelson Renteria; Writing by Robert Campbell, editing by Philip Barbara)