Heavy Rain Floods Mexico Towns
Around 130 people are dead or missing after a week of torrential rain in Mexico unleashed flooding and landslides.
Torrential rains that lashed Mexico last week have killed at least 64 people and 65 more are missing, after a tropical depression triggered landslides and flooding in parts of the Gulf Coast and central states.
"This intense rain was not expected to be of such magnitude,"
President Claudia Sheinbaum told reporters on Monday. Admiral Raymundo Morales, Mexico's Navy secretary, said the flooding was the result of the coming together of warm and cold air fronts over rivers that were already filled to the brink and mountains weakened by months of rain.
- Around 100,000 homes were affected, Sheinbaum said.
Author's summary: Heavy rain floods Mexico towns, killing 64 and leaving 65 missing.