The governor from Mexico’s hard hit Guerrero state has raised the death toll from the Category 5 Hurricane Otis that struck the country’s southern Pacific coast early Wednesday to 43.
ACAPULCO, Mexico — Gov. Evelyn Salgado said via the platform X on Sunday that the number of missing also rose to 36 from 10 a day earlier. The increase came after authorities raised the death toll to 39 on Saturday. In Acapulco on Sunday, families began to bury the dead and continued searching for essentials while government workers and volunteers cleared streets.
” She said that the victims had not yet been identified and that investigations continued. The new death toll was an increase of 12 over the initial tally of 27 announced Thursday. But the storm’s human toll was becoming a point of contention. Rodríguez also said the number of missing rose to 10.
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