Hurricane Manuel hits land in northern Mexico

Published 10:27 am Thursday, September 19, 2013

ACAPULCO, Mexico — Mexico’s government said 58 people were missing after a massive landslide smashed through a tiny coffee-growing village deep in the country’s southern mountains, where fresh waves of rain threatened more danger for rescue workers trying to evacuate the last residents from the isolated hamlet on Thursday.

The same storm that devastated Acapulco and surrounding areas over the weekend regenerated into Hurricane Manuel and made landfall again on Thursday, this time farther north in the state of Sinaloa.

Sinaloa civil protection authorities said some areas were already flooding and more than 200 people were evacuated from small fishing villages on the coast.

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The U.S. National Hurricane Center said the Category 1 hurricane had maximum sustained winds of 75 mph (120 kph) and it was centered about 95 miles (150 kilometers) southeast of Los Mochis. It is a third blow to a country still reeling from the one-two punch of Manuel’s first landfall and Hurricane Ingrid on Mexico’s eastern coast.