64 dead, many missing in southern Mexico floods

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Oct. 13 (UPI) -- Dozens are dead and many reportedly still missing and communities without power following heavy rain in parts of Mexico.

Mexican authorities still are looking for at least 65 missing people after 64 were reported dead, according to a government update on Monday, after flooding caused by two tropical storms hit at least 150 communities across a handful of Mexican states over the last few days.

"We are addressing the roads and have established air bridges to communities that remain isolated," Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum said Sunday on X.

Landslides led riverbanks to overflow which swept away entire homes, roads and cars and even entire villages as it disrupted travel, tourism and other activity in Mexico's states of Veracruz, Tab