The Mexican authorities confirmed this Sunday that the number of deaths caused by the passage of Hurricane Otis through the city of Acapulco rose to 43, in addition to 36 missing people.
The dead – four more than in the previous count – are 33 men and ten women, the governor of the state of Guerrero, Evelyn Salgado, revealed on social networks, who highlighted in conversation with the Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, that these figures They are still provisional.
The hurricane knocked out telecommunications services and left the region without electricity, which has delayed the death toll, but services have been restored.
The Otis phenomenon hit Acapulco early Wednesday morning as a category 5 hurricane, the maximum level on the Saffir-Simpson scale, and left the coastal city of almost 800,000 inhabitants in ruins.
There have been reports of looting of stores and supermarkets by residents trying to get food and water, despite the fact that humanitarian aid was being distributed, but there have also been thefts of other types of products.
The Mexican Government indicates that more than ten thousand homes have suffered damage.
Source: TSF
