Hurricane Agatha weakens over Mexico after setting May record
Aljazeera says Mexican officials are clearing highways blocked by mudslides along the country’s southern coast, after record-breaking Hurricane Agatha battered the region with torrential rains and strong winds.
Agatha on Tuesday morning weakened to a tropical depression and is expected to dissipate by afternoon, according to the US National Hurricane Center (NHC), which warned of life-threatening flash floods and mudslides in Oaxaca state.
The storm made landfall as a Category 2 hurricane on Monday afternoon, touching down with 169km per hour winds (105 miles per hour) near the beach town of Puerto Angel on the Pacific coast before losing strength as it moved inland.
Oaxaca state’s emergency services office said late on Monday that it had no reports of deaths.
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