The heavy rains that caused Agathethe first hurricane of the season to form in the eastern pacificleft at least three dead and five missing in southeastern Mexico, authorities reported Tuesday.
After dissipating Tuesday morning, Agatha’s maximum sustained winds reduced to 48 kilometers per hour (km/h) from the 165 km/h with which it impacted the state of oaxacaaccording to him National Hurricane Center (NHC), based in Miami.
The rains brought by the cyclone caused the death of a 21-year-old woman and an 18-year-old man in the southern mountains of oaxacain the community Santa Catarina Xanaguiatold Reuters a spokesman for the coordination of Civil protection of that state, Axel Martínez. “They were buried between stones and mud,” he explained.
images of users of social networks They show several houses in that community buried by what appears to be a landslide. Later, another spokeswoman for Civil protection detailed that an unidentified woman of unknown age lost her life under the mud in the community The Plain The Chillar.
“The remnants of Agathe produce heavy rains across southeastern Mexico over the next two days,” the NHC warned in a report. “Possible flash flooding and mudslides will occur,” it added.
Five people remain missing after being dragged by river currents in San Carlos Yautepec and in San Miguel del Puertonear the tourist town of Huatulco, according to preliminary information from the Department of Public Security local.
Although it has lost strength, the NHC predicted that the remnants of Agatha could transform into a new cyclone in the waters of the Gulf of Mexicoafter crossing the isthmus.
“This system is likely to become a tropical depression as it moves northeastward over the northwestern Caribbean Sea and southeastern Gulf of Mexico on Thursday or Friday night,” he explained.