The Cat. 5 storm severed the city of nearly 1 million people on its first day, intensifying too rapidly for any significant preparation.
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.
Rodríguez said the number of missing rose to 10. Hundreds of families have been awaiting word from their loved ones. One military official, who did not want to give his name because he was not authorized to speak to media, said officials in his area had found at least six bodies and his unit had found one.
"Even though it isn't much, it's something," he said as he walked down the winding mountain highway toward the city center. "I need to be able to move to search for water and ice," he said."Now there's this shortage of food and I might even have to leave Acapulco, go to Chilpancingo."
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