Floods kill 5, leave thousands homeless in Mexico
Pastor Dale Morgan
Floods kill 5, leave thousands homeless in Mexico*
Reuters | Thursday, 12 June 2008
Floods in central and southern Mexico killed five people including a
4-year-old girl and a US tourist, rescue workers said.
Around 7000 people were evacuated in the southern state of Oaxaca, where
the US tourist drowned in fierce waves off a Pacific coast beach, a
state civil protection official said.
The heavy rains at the start of the rainy season also soaked the
oil-producing state of Veracruz in the Gulf of Mexico but oil exporting
ports were open on Wednesday, the government said.
Mexico faced huge floods last year when weeks of heavy rain put the
banana-growing state of Tabasco under water in a disaster that cost
insurers $US700 million ($NZ942.3 million), according to an industry group.