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Agence France-Presse

Hurricane Grace killed at least eight people, including five children from the same family, as it tore through eastern Mexico, causing flooding, mudslides and damage to homes and businesses.
The storm made landfall in Mexico for a second time near Tecolutla in Veracruz state as a major Category Three storm with winds of 200kmh (125mph).
It later fizzled out as it moved inland over the central highlands, but not before causing widespread damage.
In the Veracruz state capital, Xalapa, streets were turned into muddy brown rivers.

Seven people died there and one more in the city of Poza Rica, Veracruz Governor Cuitlahuac Garcia told a news conference.
The victims included a mother and five of her children, who were buried when a hillside collapsed on their small home.
“I heard a bang on the roof and I went out to look,” said their father Adan Moreno, who witnessed the tragedy.
“I heard the earth collapsing. The hill was swept away and they were all down there – my wife and six children,” said Moreno, his voice breaking.

He dug through the mud with the help of relatives but only one child was pulled out alive.
His wife and five other children, including a two-week-old baby girl, did not survive.
The streets of Tecolutla, home to about 24,000 people, were littered with fallen trees, signs and roof panels.
Esteban Dominguez’s beachside restaurant was reduced to rubble.
“It was many years’ effort,” he said. “Over there was my house, but it’s destroyed. I’m left with no roof or furniture.”

Many homes in the region were left without electricity.
Grace dissipated as it churned inland, drenching Mexico City, but could develop into a new cyclone next week in the Pacific, according to the US National Hurricane Center.
The Mexican authorities remained on alert due to the threat of rivers overflowing and landslides, mainly in Veracruz.
President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador offered his condolences to the families of the victims.

Nearly 8,000 civil defence members, soldiers and electricity board workers had been put on standby ready to tackle the aftermath of the storm, he said on Friday night.
Authorities in Veracruz state said they had prepared 200 storm shelters and urged residents to hunker down in safe places.
They closed most highways in Veracruz, which is crossed by numerous rivers.
In preparation for the storm, workers along the coast boarded up windows to protect stores, fishermen brought their boats ashore and residents secured their homes after stocking up on canned food and water.
“We will spend many days without fishing – almost a week,” said Isabel Pastrana Vazquez, head of Veracruz’s federation of fisheries co-operatives. “About 35,000 fishermen will be affected because we can’t go out.”

In Casitas, a small tourist town on the coast, fisherman Domingo Hernandez said the roof had been ripped off his home.
“The whole sheet was blown off. I was there holding it,” he said, expressing relief that his boat was not damaged too.
The hurricane had already lashed Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula earlier in the week, forcing thousands of tourists to hunker down in shelters but blowing through with no loss of life.


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Hurricane Grace lashes eastern Mexico, killing at least eight including baby

A resident surveys a damaged home in Tecolitla, Veracruz state. Photo: Bloomberg

(210821) -- POZA RICA (MEXICO), Aug. 21, 2021 (Xinhua) -- Workers remove branches torn from trees due to the rain and wind caused by the landfall of Hurricane Grace, in Poza Rica, in the state of Veracruz, Mexico, on Aug. 21, 2021. At least eight people were dead and three missing after Hurricane Grace hit eastern Mexico, Cuitlahuac Garcia, governor of the state of Veracruz, reported on Saturday. (Photo by Jesus Alvarado/Xinhua)

A resident walks past debris on a street after Hurricane Grace made landfall in Tecolitla, Veracruz state, Mexico, on Saturday, Aug. 21, 2021. Grace has weakened to a Category 1 hurricane after making landfall in Mexico earlier Saturday and is making its way across the center of the country. Photographer: Hector Adolfo Quintanar Perez/Bloomberg

A resident moves a felled tree after Hurricane Grace made landfall in Tecolitla, Veracruz state, Mexico, on Saturday, Aug. 21, 2021. Grace has weakened to a Category 1 hurricane after making landfall in Mexico earlier Saturday and is making its way across the center of the country. Photographer: Hector Adolfo Quintanar Perez/Bloomberg

Photographs of the Moreno family are seen on a makeshift altar, after a landslide buried their home during the passage of Hurricane Grace, in Xalapa, Veracruz State, Mexico, Saturday, Aug. 21, 2021. Grace hit Mexico's Gulf shore as a major Category 3 storm before weakening on Saturday, drenching coastal and inland areas in its second landfall in the country in two days. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

A tree, uprooted when Hurricane Grace slammed into the coast with torrential rains, fell on a house, in Tecolutla, Mexico August 21, 2021. REUTERS/Oscar Martinez

Desperate search for earthquake survivors continues in Haiti as storm threatens

A man digs with a stone through the rubble of a house destroyed by the earthquake in Les Cayes, Haiti. Photo: AP

A police officer tries to bring order as earthquake victims scramble for a handout of rice at a food distribution place in Les Cayes, Haiti, Monday, Aug. 16, 2021. Haitians are searching for survivors and the dead in collapsed buildings following the powerful earthquake over the weekend as hospitals overflow with patients, as Tropical Depression Grace is predicted to reach Haiti Monday night bringing with it the potential for heavy rain, flooding and landslides. (AP Photo/Joseph Odelyn)

Haiti’s agony: earthquake, storm and floods

A boy grimaces in pain at the Immaculee Conception hospital in Les Cayes, Haiti, three days after an earthquake struck. Photo: AP

Earthquake-displaced children huddle under a piece of plastic the morning after Tropical Storm Grace swept over Les Cayes, Haiti, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2021, three days after a 7.2-magnitude earthquake. (AP Photo/Joseph Odelyn)

A man carries the body of a boy, who was found in a collapsed building, into the cemetery in Les Cayes, Haiti, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2021, three days after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake hit. According to an engineer working for Les Cayes Mayor, the boy's body was found Monday amid the rubble of a collapsed hostal. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

A building lays in ruins three days after a 7.2-magnitude earthquake and the morning after Tropical Storm Grace swept over Les Cayes, Haiti, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

US Coast Guard carry medical supplies to the Ofatma Hospital in Les Cayes, Haiti, August 17, 2021. - The death toll from a 7.2 magnitude earthquake that struck Haiti has risen to 1,941, the Caribbean nation's civil protection agency said Tuesday, as a tropical storm brought torrential downpours on survivors already coping with catastrophe. More than 9,900 people were wounded when the quake struck the southwestern part of the Caribbean nation on Saturday, about 100 miles (160 kilometers) to the west of the capital Port-au-Prince, according to the updated toll. (Photo by Reginald LOUISSAINT JR / AFP)

At least 57 dead after major flooding in northern Turkey; 2,500 people evacuated

A man looks at a destroyed building in Bozkurt, Kastamonu province, Turkey on Saturday after severe floods and mudslides killed at least 55. Photo: AP

A handout picture taken and released on August 13 , 2021 by the Turkish Presidential Press service shows Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) and Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu (2nd R) during a visit to the disaster zone and flood hit site in the Turkish Black Sea region, in Bozkurt,in Kastamonu ,province n north Turkey. - Heavy storms descended on Turkey's northern stretches just as rescuers reported bringing hundreds of wildfires that have killed eight people since late July under near total control in the south. (Photo by Murat CETINMUHURDAR / TURKISH PRESIDENTIAL PRESS SERVICE / AFP)

An aerial view shows the Ezine river carrying away debris after deadly flash floods broke it's banks in Bozkurt in the district of Kastamonu, in the Black Sea region of Turkey on August 14, 2021. - In Bozkurt, one eight-storey building constructed on the banks of the Ezine river collapsed. Footage shot by survivors showed furious river waters flooding the streets in just a few minutes, carrying off cars and traffic signs. (Photo by STR / AFP)

An aerial photo shows overturned cars among destruction in a mud-covered street in Bozkurt town of Kastamonu province, Turkey, Saturday, Aug. 14, 2021. The death toll from severe floods and mudslides in coastal Turkey has climbed to at least 40, the country's emergency and disaster agency said Saturday. Torrential rains that pounded the Black Sea provinces of Bartin, Kastamonu and Sinop on Wednesday caused flooding that demolished homes, severed at least five bridges, swept away cars and rendered numerous roads unpassable.(Ismail Coskun/IHA via AP)

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The streets of Tecolutla, home to about 24,000 people, were littered with fallen trees, signs and roof panels
The Category Three storm packed winds of 200kmh then fizzled out as it moved inland over the central highlands



The streets of Tecolutla, home to about 24,000 people, were littered with fallen trees, signs and roof panels.


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