Originally published on September 19, 2013
At least 58 people have gone missing in a mountain village in Mexico where many homes were buried by a landslide caused by Tropical Storm Manuel.
Rescue crews in the area have evacuated 344 people, some of them injured, from La Pintada village as the death toll from the deadly storm in Mexico climbed to 80.
Authorities were able to reach the village of La Pintada, which had been cut off from road access in the wake of the storm, by helicopter and airlifted out 35 residents, with plans to evacuate another 45 sometime today.
Despite rescue efforts, reports from people in the area claim at least 15 people have died.
No bodies have been found by authorities.
"It doesn't look good, based on the photos we have in our possession," Mexico's Interior Minister Miguel Angel Osorio Chong told the media. "You can see that it hit a lot of houses."
In Acapulco, three days of heavy rain and leaden skies evaporated into broiling late-summer sunshine that burnt several tourists attempting to flee from the city. Residents in the hundreds of thousands, meanwhile, returned to damaged, if not destroyed, homes devastated by flood water.
Hundreds of hungry residents took to the streets, pilfering supermarkets such as Costco desperately trying to get food.
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