The death toll from last week's heavy rains that triggered flash floods and landslides in eastern Mexico jumped to 64 today, with 65 people considered missing.
The search for the missing has been expanded to areas cut off from the rest of the world by landslides.
Heavy rainfall in central and southeastern Mexico caused rivers to overflow, leaving 65 people missing, Civil Protection Coordinator Laura Velasquez Alzua said today during a press briefing by President Claudia Scheinbaum.
The extent of the devastation in five Mexican states became clearer the day after Sheinbaum visited the affected areas in Puebla and Veracruz, where she promised that government assistance would be stepped up.
Mexico's civil protection agency said heavy rains had killed 29 people in the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz as of Monday morning, as well as 21 people in the state of Hidalgo, north of Mexico City.
At least 13 people were killed in Puebla, east of Mexico City.
In the central state of Querétaro, it was previously reported that a child had been killed in a landslide.
Parts of the state of Veracruz received about 54 centimeters of rain between Monday and Thursday last week, the Mexican federal government said.
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