A BRITISH national is among the 58 still missing after Hurricane Otis pounded the famous Mexican coastal resort of Acapulco.
Earlier this week, authorities announced a Brit had been killed during the “nightmare” storm that pounded the city with 165mph winds.
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Three three foreign nationals have died since Otis made landfall on October 25, including the Brit as well as a Canadian and American.
Guerrero state governor Evelyn Salgado has now revealed another Brit is still missing.
The other foreigners unaccounted for are 11 Americans, five French nationals and a Peruvian.
Category 5 Hurricane Otis, the strongest on record for a landfalling Eastern Pacific tropical cyclone, claimed most of its victims in Acapulco.
Although, a number of other people are also known to have died in the nearby municipality of Coyuca de Benitez.
It pummelled Acapulco with high winds, torrential rains and powerful waves as the “nightmare scenario” forecasters had warned of came true.
Footage showed Otis battering buildings, while people ran for cover as they found themselves at the eye of one the most powerful storms to hit Mexico.
The latest figures released by regional authorities puts the death toll at 46 and the number of people who are still missing at 58.
Hurricane Otis touched land just west of Acapulco on October 25, damaging many of the buildings in the city with landslides and flooding resulting from heavy rain.
The powerful storm had intensified quickly as it moved towards land – catching many off guard who scrambled to get emergency shelters ready.
The day Otis hit, Mexico’s president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador announced that there had been “no communication” with the coastal city as its 165mph winds cut it from the rest of the world.
For days after, Acapulco was left with no drinking water and plenty of residents also lost power.
The army was mobilised to help survivors and assist in recovery efforts.
Residents in outlying areas of Acapulco have been complaining today that they are still without water and electricity and are low on food.
Acapulco is a city of more than one million people, where both luxury homes and slums alike cover the city’s hillsides with views of the Pacific.
It is one of Mexico’s oldest beach resorts and once attracted Hollywood stars including Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Sinatra and Brigitte Bardot in the 1950s.
Ten Hollywood actors, led by John Wayne and former Tarzan Johnny Weissmuller bought a hotel in the resort and helped turned it into one of the most fashionable of its era.
Its reputation has been tarnished in recent years by the rival drugs cartels that have turned part of the city into no-go areas.
British tourists now favour destinations like Cancun and the nearby Riviera Maya coastline.
As the area braced for Otis’ landfall last week, there were fears that the hurricane could rival the devastation unleashed on Acapulco by Hurricane Pauline in 1997.
The storm destroyed huge parts of the city and killed more than 200 people.
Hundreds of others were injured in flooding and mudslides that followed.
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