MEXICO CITY (AP) — Heavy rains brought by the remnants of Tropical Storm Trudy are causing mudslides and flooding in southern Mexico
At least six people have been killed.
Raul Miliani, deputy secretary of Civil Protection in Guerrero state, told a news conference Sunday that five of the dead were killed in a municipality, 124 miles east of Acapulco, where part of a water-soaked mountainside collapsed and a raging river swept away a 70-year-old man.
The sixth person died in a municipality near the border with Oaxaca (wuh-HAH’-kah) state.
Miliani said states of emergency have been declared in 36 municipalities, and that 4,075 people have been evacuated to shelters.
He said classes have been suspended for an area stretching from the tourist resort of Acapulco to the border with Oaxaca.
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