At least 48 people died when Category 5 Hurricane Otis slammed into Mexico’s southern Pacific coast, with most of the deaths occurring in Acapulco. Families held funerals for the victims and continued the search for essentials while authorities cleared the streets.
TOPSHOT - View of damages caused by the passage of Hurricane Otis in Acapulco , Guerrero State , Mexico , on October 28, 2023.
“The water came in with the rocks, the mud and totally buried them,” Barrera, who was standing outside a local morgue, said of her aunt’s family. During a short time outside the morgue Sunday morning, at least a half-dozen families arrived, some looking for relatives; other identifying bodies and still others giving statements to authorities.
Kristian Vera stood on an Acapulco beach Saturday looking out toward dozens of sunken boats, including three of her own, all marked by floating buoys or just poking out of the water. Leaning against a small wooden fishing boat like her own, tipped on its side on a beach strewn with trash and fallen trees, she explained that some of the people who died were either fishermen caring for their boats or yacht captains who were told by their owners to make sure their boats were OK when Otis was approaching as a tropical storm.“That night I was so worried because I live off of this, it’s how I feed my kids,” Vera said.
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