2023-10-30 01:25:59
The previous report showed 39 deaths, most of them by drowning. The casualty count was slow following the hurricane knocked out telecommunications and electricity, which were gradually restored over the weekend.
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“We are making progress in the effective distribution of humanitarian aid,” Evelyn Salgado also assured on X (ex-Twitter). Aid from the government and private organizations began to be distributed Friday followingnoon, following the airport reopened.
A devastated Acapulco street on Sunday. — © Felix Marquez / keystone-sda.ch
Significant material damage
Arriving Wednesday morning classified in category 5, the highest on the Saffir-Simpson scale, Hurricane Otis caused significant destruction in Acapulco, a city of nearly 780,000 inhabitants, where stores and supermarkets were elsewhere been looted while waiting for help.
The federal government has counted more than 10,000 homes having suffered more or less serious damage in this seaside resort which lives mainly from tourism, one of the most famous in Latin America.
In pictures: In pictures: Acapulco, the seaside resort in ruins following the passage of Hurricane Otis
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