Torrential rain that lashed Mexico last week killed at least 64 people and 65 more are missing, the government said on 13 October, after a tropical depression triggered landslides and flooding in parts of the Gulf Coast and central states.
The unnamed depression came toward the end of the rainy season, battering land and bursting rivers that had already been soaked by months of rain, while forecasters were focused on tropical storms and two hurricanes on the Pacific coast.
"This intense rain was not expected to be of such magnitude," President Claudia Sheinbaum told reporters.
Admiral Raymundo Morales, Mexico's Navy secretary, said the flooding was the result of the coming together of warm and cold air fronts over rivers that were already filled to the brink and mountains weakened by months of rain.
Around 100,000 homes were affected, Sheinbaum said. She is set to meet with the finance ministry later in the day to discuss rebuilding efforts, and visit some hard-hit states.
Authorities have deployed thousands of personnel to help evacuate, clean up and monitor the places that were hardest hit.
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At least 44 people were killed in Mexico after days of heavy rain and flooding, the government said on 12 October.
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