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Bisnis.com, JAKARTA – The number of victims killed and missing due to Hurricane Otis that hit the city of Acapulco in Mexico last week increased to 100 people on Monday (10/30/2023).

Launch Reuters, On Tuesday (10/31), Hurricane Otis, which is a Category 5 hurricane, hit Acapulco with winds of 266 km/h on Wednesday last week. This storm triggered flash floods, damaged the roofs of homes, hotels and other businesses, submerged vehicles and cut communications as well as land and air routes.

The governor of Guerrero, Acapulco state, Evelyn Salgado, said 45 people were killed and 47 others missing.

On Sunday, Mexico’s federal civil protection authority said 48 people had died, including 43 in Acapulco and five in Coyuca de Benitez. Among the dead were a U.S. citizen, a British citizen and a Canadian citizen.

This looting comes as the city’s population, which numbers nearly 900,000, increasingly lacks food and water.

Many Acapulco residents were still struggling to pick up the pieces of their shattered lives Monday afternoon.

Rumualda Hernandez, from the Renacimiento region, a few kilometers from the coast, urged the government to send help after walking ten blocks from her destroyed house to fetch water from a reservoir and wash her mud-stained clothes.

“I was shaking with fear. I thought I was going to die,” Hernández said as he recalled how the floodwaters in his home rose to their head as the storm raged.

Fishermen and workers from a tourist cruise ship gathered Sunday afternoon at Playa Honda in Acapulco to search for their missing colleagues and friends, worried that authorities were not doing enough.

Luis Alberto Medina, a fisherman, said he was looking for six people working at the port.

“It’s terrible. We found the bodies of other people,” Hernández said.

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