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Mexico says homes of up to 500,000 people damaged in floods
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 04 - 11 - 2007


Authorities said massive
floods in southern Mexico have destroyed or damaged the
homes of as many as half a million people, as rescue
workers focused Sunday on reaching isolated communities
surrounded by water for almost a week, according to AP.
Getting the sick and injured out _ and vital supplies like
food and water in _ replaced mass evacuations as the
priority for emergency workers in Tabasco and Chiapas
states, where the widespread floods have caused 8 deaths.
Many who decided to stay on rooftops to protect their
homes from looters were running low on supplies, as were
residents of cut-off communities, as the flooding entered
its second week.
«We spent days without food. We thought we were going to
die,» said Marta Vidal, 47, who was evacuated by
helicopter.
In the Tabasco state capital, Villahermosa, some desperate
residents broke into shuttered stores and took food and
household goods.
«We are focusing on selective evacuations and bringing in
supplies,» said Daniel Montiel Ortiz, who oversaw
helicopter rescue efforts for the federal police. Ortiz
called the outbreaks of looting «isolated incidents.»
After water covered about 80 percent of Tabasco's already
swampy Gulf coast territory, authorities struggled to
calculate the damages; the federal Social Development
Department estimated that the homes of 400,000 to 500,000
people were damaged or destroyed.
Civil defense officials in Chiapas state, which borders
Guatemala, reported finding seven bodies: five adults swept
away by swollen rivers, a 25-year-old undocumented Honduran
migrant who drowned while trying to cross a river and an
8-year-old girl who fell from a bridge.
In Tabasco _ where one man died earlier in the week _
river levels began to recede slightly.
Still, the state capital remained largely flooded and prey
to horrifying rumors _ that crocodiles, which normally live
along the banks of some rivers, had invaded the murky
floodwaters in the city's center, or that the dam upstream
was about to burst.
The Tabasco state government said the dam was not in
danger, but had no immediate comment on crocodiles.
Health authorities reported cases of eye, skin, intestinal
and respiratory infections, but no mass outbreak of
waterborne diseases that many had feared.
President Felipe Calderon, who was scheduled to tour the
disaster area again on Sunday, has called it one of
Mexico's worst recent natural disasters.


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