Tropical storm Roslyn, which reached northwestern Mexico as a Category 3 hurricane, killed at least two people, damaged homes and destroyed roads.

Hurricane Roslyn reached the west coast of Mexico, initially hitting - as reported by the National Hurricane Center (NHC) - the surroundings of Santa Cruz (State of Nayarit), where 1,200 people live and after being downgraded to a storm hit the city of Durango, in the north-central part of the country.

The hurricane is expected to "weaken rapidly" as it advances into Mexico's mountainous north, the National Hurricane Center said, before "fading into night or this morning."

States of Nayarit and Jalisco, the most affected

Damage, floods, tree falls and landslides were reported by the civil protection authorities of the states of

Nayarit and Jalisco (west)

, the most affected by the hurricane.

The damage caused by

Roslyn

 in

Puerto Vallarta

(Jalisco State), which has about 220,000 inhabitants, was enormous.

"It was a bit scary. The water started getting into our house, we had to take our kids out and get them up. We were in the rain for about three hours, my house was destroyed," he said. told one of the inhabitants of the seaside resort.

In Sayulita, in Nayarit

, a stream broke its banks, burying some houses. 

More than a thousand residents of the areas at risk have left their homes to reach the shelters or homes of relatives, while commercial activities have been suspended. 

Tropical

cyclones hit Mexico each year on its Pacific and Atlantic coasts, usually between May and November.

In late May,

Agatha

, the first storm of the season in the Pacific, hit the coasts of the southern state of Oaxaca, where heavy rains in mountain towns killed 11 people.

In October 1997, the

4th rank

Paulina devastated Mexico's southern Pacific coast, killing more than 200 people.