Authorities are scrambling to rescue people stranded in flooded homes in Mexico's resort of Acapulco after twin storms slammed opposite coasts in a rare one-two punch that has killed 34 people.
Hurricane Ingrid weakened to tropical storm strength as it made landfall on the northeastern coast in the morning while the Pacific coast reeled from the remnants of Tropical Storm Manuel, which dissipated after striking on Sunday.
Thousands of people were evacuated as the two storms set off landslides and floods that damaged bridges, roads and homes.
The last time the country was hit by two tropical storms in the span of 24 hours was in 1958, officials said. Never before has it been struck by a hurricane and another storm at the same time.
"More than two-thirds of the national territory has been affected," Interior Minister Miguel Angel Osorio Chong told a news conference.
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At least 12 people died when a landslide hit a bus and workers removing earth that had previously fallen on a road in the eastern state of Veracruz, a civil protection official said after federal officials reported 22 deaths elsewhere.
At least 15 people have died in the southwestern state of Guerrero where Acapulco is situated, said national civil protection chief Luis Felipe Puente.
Six more people died in the central states of Hidalgo and Puebla and one in the southern state of Oaxaca. Guerrero state officials reported six deaths in a road accident, but Puente did not include them in his account.
Around 50 towns were affected in Guerrero, with some 238,000 people seeing various levels of damage to their homes, Puente said, adding that dozens of shelters had opened for some 20,000 people.
The highway linking Acapulco to Mexico City was closed due to landslides while the resort's airport was shut down, with some 100 people stranded on the terminal's second floor. Authorities hoped to reopen both later on Monday.
With waters rising as high as one metre in some neighbourhoods, soldiers used boats to pluck around 100 people who took refuge on upper floors or the roofs of homes.
The flooding brought out crocodiles, complicating the rescue work, officials said, while Manuel's remnants were still producing rain. Those rescued were taken to an auditorium that was converted into a shelter.
At least 11 deaths were reported in Acapulco, including a family of six whose home was crushed by a landslide.
