Government workers and volunteers cleared streets, gas station lines wrapped around the block, and some lucky families found food essentials as a more organized relief operation took shape four days after Hurricane Otis.
By Megan Janetsky, Associated PressResidents, standing on an overpass, look at damaged caused by Hurricane Otis, in Acapulco, Mexico, Friday, Oct. 27, 2023.
The increase comes after the initial death toll of 27 had not changed since it was announced Thursday. The storm’s human toll was becoming a point of contention as local media reported the recovery of more bodies. López Obrador criticized his opponents for trying to make the storm’s death toll a political issue.
The 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. People stand on the side of a road asking for help in the aftermath of Hurricane Otis in Acapulco, Mexico, Friday, Oct. 27, 2023.
“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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