Hurricane John, which made landfall twice on Mexico’s Pacific coast, has now killed eight people, all in the southern state of Guerrero, home to the beach city of Acapulco, authorities said Saturday.
John first hit the coast earlier this week as a Category 3 hurricane, lashing the coast for several days and intensifying before making landfall again, this time as a tropical storm.
“We regret the loss of eight lives due to landslides caused by heavy rains,” President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on social network X, formerly Twitter.
Local media gave a higher figure, but the government did not officially confirm those figures.
The state of Guerrero was hardest hit, especially Acapulco, which was ravaged by Hurricane Otis in October 2023, which claimed dozens of lives.
While the rain has since stopped, the streets of Acapulco were still flooded on Saturday as residents waited for emergency help or wandered with the few belongings they could salvage from their homes.
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