ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) — Survivors of the Pacific hurricane that killed at least 27 people as it devastated Acapulco spent Thursday searching for acquaintances and necessities and hoping that aid arrives quickly in the wake of Hurricane Otis.
Resentment grew in impoverished neighborhoods as residents worried that government attention would go to repairing tourism infrastructure, the city's economic engine, rather than helping the neediest.
"The mountain came down on them. The mud took her from the mother’s arms,” Contreras said. “We need help, the mother is in bad shape and we can’t find the girl.” Otis turned from mild to monster in record time, and scientists are struggling to figure out how — and why they didn’t see it coming. Edith Villanueva, holding her daughter, worried about what would happen to Acapulco in the long term.“They already stole all of the phones,” she said. “It’s one thing to steal food, but people are abusing it.”
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