ELEVEN DIE, DOZENS CONFIRMED MISSING IN MEXICO AS HURRICANE AGATHA MAKES LANDFALL

Eleven people are dead and more than 20 missing after Hurricane Agatha struck Oaxaca State in Mexico, the state’s governor says. Agatha made landfall on Monday as a category two hurricane, the strongest to hit Mexico’s Pacific coast in the month of May since records began in 1949. Heavy rain brought by Agatha triggered landslides and flash flooding. Most of the victims were swept away by rivers or buried in mudslides. Agatha arrived on Mexico’s coast near Puerto Ángel with wind gusts of up to one hundred and sixty-nine but lost strength as it moved inland. However, torrential rains caused rivers to overflow and mountainsides to give way. Oaxaca Governor Alejandro Murat said that at least five people had been swept away by rivers.