In Mexico, Hurricane Agatha leaves at least ten dead and twenty missing

Hurricane Agatha, which made landfall in southern Mexico on Monday and was downgraded to a tropical storm on Tuesday, caused heavy rains and deadly landslides. Agatha is now moving south to the state of Veracruz, which borders the Gulf of Mexico. Ten people have died and about 20 are missing following the arrival on Monday on the coast of the state of Oaxaca, in southern Mexico, of hurricane Agatha, downgraded Tuesday, May 31 to a tropical storm. At the moment we have about 20 missing people (…) in the mountains,” Oaxaca Governor Alejandro Murat told Radio Formula. “Ten (people) lost their lives,” he added. A previous toll was three dead and eight missing. “When Agatha made landfall, the day ended with no loss of life, but heavy rains that fell early Tuesday morning caused rivers to burst their banks. and caused landslides”, he had advanced a little earlier to the press. First hurricane of the seasonThe phenomenon, the first hurricane of the season on the Pacific coast of Mexico, made landfall as a category 2 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale (which has 5) Monday afternoon, west of Puerto Angel, a coastal town of about 2,500 people in the state of Oaxaca. It was “the hurricane the most violent” ever recorded on the Pacific coast of Mexico in May since 1949, the National Hurricane Center of the United States (NHC) assured Monday. Agatha moves to the south of the state of Veracruz (east ), which borders the Gulf of Mexico, causing torrential rains in this region and the south of the country.Q Some 5,240 tourists have been identified in the risk zone, between the seaside resorts of Puerto Escondido and Huatulco, according to local authorities. With AFP