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Hurricane Otis death toll rises to 39, Mexico security authorities say
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Mexico’s security authorities raised the death toll Saturday from the Category 5 Hurricane Otis that struck the country’s southern Pacific coast early Wednesday to 39.
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Hurricane Otis death toll rises to 39, Mexico security authorities say
Hurricane Otis slammed into Mexico’s southern Pacific coast as a catastrophic Category 5 hurricane early Wednesday, bringing dangerous winds and heavy rain to Acapulco and surrounding towns.
Hurricane Otis was downgraded to a Category 4 storm after making landfall near Mexico's Pacific beach resort of Acapulco on Wednesday, though it was still generating "damaging" winds and "life-threatening" storm surge, according to US forecasters.
Mexico's government initiated its military disaster relief operation, but analysts and relief experts say the armed forces are vastly underprepared to deal with the situation.
Mexico’s security authorities raised the death toll Saturday from the Category 5 Hurricane Otis that struck the country’s southern Pacific coast early Wednesday to 39.
Mexico’s security authorities have raised the death toll from the Category 5 Hurricane Otis that struck the country’s southern Pacific coast early Wednesday to 39. Mexico's security secretary said Saturday that the probable cause of death for the 39 was “suffocation by submersion.
Aid has been slow to arrive. The Category 5 storm’s destruction cut off the city of nearly 1 million people for the first day and it intensified so quickly on Tuesday that little to nothing had been staged in advance.
The death toll in Mexico has climbed to 39 after Category 5 Hurricane Otis hit the country’s Guerrero state earlier this week, authorities said in a statement Saturday.
Mexico’s security authorities raised the death toll Saturday from the Category 5 Hurricane Otis that struck the country’s southern Pacific coast early Wednesday to 39.
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