The death toll in Mexico due to John’s death rose to 10

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2024-09-26 23:49:38

State authorities put the number at 10 muertos in southern Mexico due to the passage of Hurricane Johncategory 1, which continued this Thursday through the Central Mexico Pacific, adding two victims in the last hours. The abnormal movement of John, which made landfall on Monday night as a category 3 hurricane in the state of Guerrero, reappeared on Wednesday and which this Wednesday is circulating as a category 1 on the coast of the state of Michoacán, has already arrived. ten that they beat him.

In Guerrero, the authorities reported eight deaths, this Thursday two people died, a small child and a man, and until Wednesday the number is six victims, two in the areas of Tlacochistlahuaca, two in Malinaltepec, one small in Acapulco and one in Tecoanapa. In addition to two more people in Oaxaca, authorities from that state confirmed this Wednesday.

The seventh victim in Guerrero was a small child, who was left behind was buried by the fall of a mountain in the Ecologista area (neighborhood), a few meters from the La Venta cabin, on the Sol road that connects Mexico City with Acapulco. According to the authorities, the neighbors showed that the little boy was in the house with another child and his mother, when due to heavy rains and soft ground, the mountain broke away and buried them. The neighbors managed to save the mother and the little child, while the second child was brought out without serious symptoms, so they put him in a blanket and took him to another house to keep him.

The eighth person who was injured was a man who was drowned in the area of ​​Alta Lomas de la Esperanza, so the neighbors took the body. They said that they saw how the current was washing the dead body, so they decided to help him and remove him from the water later, they found that he had no vital signs, and they said to the ministry officials. They said they did not know the man, and where in Acapulco he came from, and where he was taken, and they came to retrieve the body and hand it over to the authorities.

The city authorities have indicated that the situation in the port is complicated because it has been raining for three days and there are no conditions to travel in Acapulco, because of the typhoon. severe flooding in dozens of areas affecting thousands of families. To prevent accidents, the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) of the state has stopped electricity this Thursday, in addition to dozens of landslides and destruction of land and bridges.

According to the forecast track, John will make landfall again as a category 1 hurricane on Thursday in Michoacán, after having hit Guerrero on Monday as a category 3 hurricane.

John is the second hurricane of the Pacific season to make landfall Mexicowhere Storm Ileana last week hit the state of Sinaloa, in the northwestern part of the country, leaving little damage. Three hurricanes have hit Mexico from the Atlantic: Hurricane Beryl and Storm Chris, which left white money in July, and Storm Alberto in June, when six people died in Nuevo León, a state on the northern border of Mexico. .

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