Officials in Mexico say three foreign residents were among at least 45 people who perished when Hurricane Otis hit the resort of Acapulco last week.
Firefighters and scuba divers search for bodies near sunken boats at a yacht club in Acapulco, Mexico, Saturday, Oct. 28, 2023, following Hurricane Otis. hit Mexico’s resort city of Acapulco last week, officials said Monday, as the continuing search for the missing focused on submerged boats.
There have been continuing reports that some crew members were aboard boats during the storm. Acapulco is known for both its abundance of expensive yachts and its cheap tour boats that carry tourists around the bay. Abigail Andrade Rodríguez was one of four crew members aboard the rental boat Litos, a 94-foot , twin-motor yacht based in Puerto Marques, just south of Acapulco's main bay, on the night the hurricane hit.“She spoke with her family and she said the sea was very choppy, and that they were going to leave Puerto Marques and head for the marina to see if they would be safer there,” Andrade said. “It appears they didn't arrive.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Saturday that his opponents are trying to inflate the toll to damage him politically, but with hundreds of
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