Three people have been killed and eight others missing after Cyclone Agatha – which was battered by meteorologists in a tropical storm on Tuesday – began hitting coastal areas in Oaxaca (southern Mexico) on Monday, according to local government.
“After Agatha reached the ground, the day ended without any loss of life, but the heavy rains that fell early on Tuesday morning (yesterday) caused floods and landslides,” Governor Alejandro Murat told reporters. “Three people are dead and (others) eight are missing,” he said.
The three people who lost their lives were in the communities of Santa Catarina Chanagia and Gianno del Chiar, the state Civil Protection clarified.
The phenomenon, the first cyclone of the season off the coast of Mexico in the Pacific Ocean, reached above ground while it was characterized as a Category 2 storm on a five-point scale Sapphire-Simpson yesterday afternoon (local time), 2.5 west of Puerto Ancelia (Puerto Rico). Oaxaca.
It was the “strongest” cyclone recorded off the Mexican coast in the Pacific since May 1949, according to the US National Hurricane Center (NHC).
Agatha was heading south on Tuesday to the state of Veracruz (east), causing torrential rain there and elsewhere in southern Mexico.
About 5,240 tourists are in high-risk areas, mainly in resorts such as Puerto Escondido and Ouatulco, according to local authorities.
Mexico is hit each year by tropical cyclones off the coast of both the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, generally from May to November.
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