ACAPULCO: Hurricane Otis caused at least 27 deaths and major damage as it lashed Mexico's resort city of Acapulco as a scale-topping category 5 storm,...
View of a building partially destroyed after the passage of Hurricane Otis in Acapulco, Guerrero State, Mexico, on October 26, 2023. AFPPIX: Hurricane Otis caused at least 27 deaths and major damage as it lashed Mexico's resort city of Acapulco as a scale-topping category 5 storm, officials said Thursday.
Others said an overflowing river and collapsed bridges had cut off communities near Acapulco, home to about 780,000 people.Security Minister Rosa Icela Rodriguez told a news conference Thursday that 27 people were dead and four were missing.He described the storm as “disastrous” and said that it was only thanks to the actions of people who sought shelter that there were not more deaths.The government would begin an airlift to deliver aid and materials to the region, Lopez Obrador said.
The World Meteorological Organization described the hurricane as “one of the most rapidly intensifying tropical cyclones on record.”“The building shook as if there was an earthquake,“ Citlali Portillo, a tourist accommodation manager, told the television channel Televisa, adding that she had taken shelter in a bathtub.
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