Two people were killed and four are missing in Mexico after the passage of the storm Hanna, which caused flooding in the northeast of the country, announced Monday the civil protection.
The two dead are a woman and her daughter swept away by the current of a swollen river that she was trying to cross in a van in the state of Coahuila, on the border with the United States, according to reports. from the Mexican press.
Floods and landslides in Hanna's wake
The four missing people were in the same state, affected by heavy rains in the past 48 hours. More than a thousand Mexicans remain sheltered in temporary shelters after the passage of Hanna, the first hurricane of the year 2020 on the Atlantic coast.
After sweeping through Texas, accompanied by heavy rains and squalls, Hanna had been demoted to a tropical storm. But meteorologists had warned of the risk of flooding and landslides in northern Mexico.
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