Mexican rescue teams are searching for survivors and working to access communities cut off by torrential rains and landslides in central and southeastern Mexico.
The death toll has risen to more than 60 across the country, with another 65 people reported missing. In the southeastern Mexican state of Veracruz, dozens of communities remained inaccessible by road in the days after severe flooding.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum says more than 100,000 homes in Mexico have been affected.
“This intense rain wasn’t expected at this magnitude,” Sheinbaum said at a press conference Monday. Thousands of military personnel have been deployed around the country to help with rescue efforts after rivers overflowed from the unexpectedly heavy rain, Sheinbaum told reporters.
Meanwhile, in northwestern Mexico, heavy rain from tropical storm Raymond left sections of highways temporarily closed and roads flooded around the state of Sonora, but no casualties from the storm have been reported there.
