ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) — At least 48 people died when Category 5 Hurricane Otis slammed into Mexico’s southern Pacific coast, most of them in Acapulco, Mexican authorities said Sunday as the death toll continued to climb and families buried loved ones. Mexico’s civil defense agency said in a statement that 43 of the dead were…
ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) — Mexico’s security secretary says Hurricane Otis was responsible for at least 27 deaths and four people remained missing. Rosa Icela Rodríguez Rodríguez comments Thursday at President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s morning news briefing were echoed minutes later by Guerrero state Gov. Evelyn Salgado. No details were provided about the victims or…
ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) — Residents of Mexico’s once glamorous port of Acapulco and surrounding coastal towns braced for the arrival of the “potentially catastrophic” Hurricane Otis, a rapidly intensifying Category 5 hurricane that stirred memories of a 1997 storm that killed dozens of people. “A nightmare scenario is unfolding for southern Mexico this evening with…