the hurricane Agathadowngraded to a tropical storm on Tuesday, left 11 dead and at least 33 missing on the heights of the coasts of the state of Oaxaca in southern Mexico, victims of consecutive heavy rains, the local government announced.
“There are 33 missing and 11 dead, mainly on the heights of the coastal zone,” said the governor of Oaxaca, Alejandro Murat, in a video call broadcast during the daily press conference of the presidency.
A previous report reported ten dead and twenty missing.
” When Agatha landfall, the day ended with no loss of life, but the heavy rains that fell early Tuesday morning caused the rivers to burst their banks and caused landslides,” he previously explained to the press. .
The 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) on Monday afternoon, west of Puerto Angel, a coastal town of about 2,500 inhabitants in the state of Oaxaca.
The United States National Hurricane Center (NHC) said Monday that it was “the strongest hurricane” ever recorded on the Pacific coast of Mexico in May since 1949.
Agatha moves on Tuesday towards 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.
Some 5,240 tourists have been identified in the risk zone, between the resorts of Puerto Escondido and Huatulco, according to local authorities.
Mexico is hit by tropical cyclones on its Pacific and Atlantic coasts every year, usually between May and November.