Mexico’s civil defence agency said 43 of the dead were in the resort city of Acapulco and five were in nearby Coyuca de Benitez.
In Acapulco, families held funerals for the dead on Sunday and continued the search for essentials while government workers and volunteers cleared streets clogged with muck and debris from the powerful category five hurricane.Katy Barrera, 30, said on Sunday that her aunt’s family was buried under a landslide when tonnes of mud and rock tumbled on to their home.
“There are many, many people here at the that are entire families, families of six, families of four, even eight people,” she said.During a short time outside the morgue on Sunday morning, at least half a dozen families arrived, some looking for relatives, other identifying bodies and still others giving statements to authorities.
President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Saturday that his opponents are trying to inflate the toll to damage him politically, but with hundreds of families still awaiting word from loved ones it was likely to keep rising.Otis roared ashore early on Wednesday with devastating 165mph winds after strengthening so rapidly that people had little time to prepare.
Many people rode out on boats in what had started as a tropical storm and in just 12 hours powered up into a catastrophic hurricane.
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