Major Category 3 hurricane heads for southern Mexico

Hurricane Otis on Tuesday rapidly strengthened to a major Category 3 storm as it headed toward Mexico's southern Pacific coast, the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said."Additional strengthening is forecast, and Otis is expected to be an extremely dangerous category 4 hurricane when the center reaches the coast" by early Wednesday, it said.

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