Hurricane Otis batters Mexico, unleashes massive flooding in Acapulco, triggers landslides| Oneindia

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Hurricane Otis tore across Mexico’s southern Pacific coast as a powerful and dangerous Category 5 hurricane Wednesday, unleashing massive flooding in the resort city of Acapulco. Mexican soldiers and rescue workers on Thursday scrambled to clear up the chaos and devastation wrought by Hurricane Otis in Acapulco as the government worked to bring relief to the battered southern beach resort.

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00:00 Hurricane Otis tore across Mexico's southern Pacific coast as a powerful and dangerous

00:09 Category 5 hurricane on Wednesday, unleashing massive flooding in the resort city of Acapulco.

00:17 Mexican soldiers and rescue workers on Thursday scrambled to clear up the chaos and devastation

00:21 wrought by Hurricane Otis in Acapulco as the government worked to bring relief to the battered

00:26 southern beach resort. Otis slammed into Acapulco in the state of Guerrero as one of the strongest

00:33 hurricanes to ever hit Mexico's Pacific coast, flooding streets, ripping roofs of houses

00:38 and hotels, and severing communications, road and air access. The number remains unclear.

00:44 Downed phone service and electricity lines have made it hard for officials to assess

00:48 the extent of damage, with no immediate reports of fatalities as of Wednesday evening. Nearly

00:53 8,400 members of Mexico's Army, Air Force and National Guard were deployed in and near

00:58 Acapulco to assist in cleanup efforts, the defense ministry said. Mexico's state power

01:03 utility CFE had over 1,300 employees working to restore power, it said on Wednesday evening,

01:09 when some 300,000 people remained without electricity. The port city's international

01:14 airport was closed after Otis wrecked the control tower, cut telecommunications and

01:19 left access roads blocked. On Tuesday, Otis took many by surprise when it rapidly strengthened

01:25 from a tropical storm to a powerful category 5 as it tore along the coast. Researchers

01:30 tracking the storm said that the storm broke records for how quickly it intensified at

01:35 a time when climate change has exacerbated devastating weather events like this one.

01:39 Acapulco, Tecpan and other towns along the coast grant in Guerrero were hit hard, said

01:45 Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. He said conditions were so bad that communication

01:51 with the area had been completely lost. Lopez Obrador noted that Otis was a stronger hurricane

01:58 than Pauline, which hit Acapulco in 1997, destroying swathes of the city and killing

02:03 more than 300 people.

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