ACAPULCO (Mexico), Nov 1 Armed with machetes and baseball bats, some residents of Mexico’s hurricane-ravaged beachside city of Acapulco are guarding their neighbourhoods from.
Acapulco was struggling Sunday to recover from the extraordinarily powerful Hurricane Otis, which claimed 48 lives across southern Mexico and provoked widespread power, water and telephone outages.
The number of people dead and missing due to Hurricane Otis, a Category 5 storm which hammered the Mexican Pacific resort city of Acapulco last week, has risen to close to 100, authorities in the state of Guerrero said on Monday.