At least there are four people deadTwo children aged three and eleven, including two and six children, went missing due to hurricane ‘Agatha’ in Oaxaca, Mexico.. Eusebio Jarquín, the Civil Protection coordinator of San Pedro Pochutla, confirmed the deaths of two minors, ages eleven and three, in the Corcovado Petaca community, the newspaper ‘El Universal’ reported. “Unfortunately, they sought the support of some people in a house on the riverbed that looked pretty safe. the river destroyed the walls of this house and the house was floodedwhere there are about 17 people,” Jarquín said.
Earlier, Adelfo Regino Montes, head of the National Indigenous Peoples Institute, reported that two people died after a landslide in Xanaguía, Sierra Sur. “In San Carlos Yautepec, municipal authorities reported the disappearance of a person drifting by the current of the river in Asunción Tlacolulita,” the Oaxaca Civil Protection said in a statement. Said. “One missing person has been reported in Huatulco, San Miguel del Puerto, due to the Copalita River flooding and the drifting of four adults, and a landslide in San Mateo Piñas.” Likewise, authorities reported that two people were trapped in a landslide that occurred on a slope.
With regard to property damage, Civil Protection stated: some places isolated due to landslides and overflow of riversso the Army, Firefighters and Marines members are helping the residents of the affected towns.
The first hurricane of the season is on land with a speed of 13 km/h towards the northeast, with maximum sustained winds reaching 65 km/h and gusts of 75 km/h. The National Meteorological Service (SMN) of the National Water Commission (Conagua), in coordination with the National Hurricane Center, provides a hurricane containment zone from Salina Cruz in Oaxaca to Lagunas de Chacahua; A hurricane monitoring zone from Salina Cruz, Oaxaca to Barra de Tonalá, Chiapas, and a tropical storm containment zone from Lagunas de Chacahua, Oaxaca to Punta Maldonado, Guerrero, and Salina Cruz, Oaxaca to Boca de Pijijiapan, Chiapas.