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Matthew
Leaves 8
Dead in
Central
America
& Mexico
TEGUCIGALPA
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Tropical
Storm
Matthew
left at
least
eight
people
dead and
badly
damaged
housing,
infrastructure
and
agribusiness
in
Central
America
and
Mexico
over the
weekend,
according
to
preliminary
reports
on
Monday.
The
storm
made
landfall
on
Friday
at the
mouth of
the Coco
River,
on the
Caribbean
coast of
Nicaragua,
and from
there
continued
on to
Honduras,
Belize
and
Mexico.
In
Nicaragua,
the
Civil
Defense
in
Puerto
Cabezas
reported
fisherman
Adolfo
Watson
was
missing
after
giant
waves
sunk his
boat.
In
Honduras,
the
storm
affected
6,000
people
in eight
departments
and
damaged
172
homes,
nine
bridges,
and 32
roads
and
ruined
extensive
areas of
rice,
banana
and
sugarcane
crops.
Although
Matthew
did not
enter El
Salvador,
associated
rains
caused
the
death of
one man,
who was
dragged
away by
a river
in the
department
of La
Libertad
Department,
while
another
young
man went
missing
in a
ravine.
The
storm's
remnant
clouds
and
humidity
brought
rainfall
all over
Honduras
and soil
saturation
was
making
the
country
vulnerable,
according
to Civil
Protection
director
Jorge
Meléndez.
The
storm
also hit
southern
Belize
and the
departments
of
Izabal,
Petén
and Las
Verapaces
in
Guatemala,
but no
fatalities
were
reported.
Still,
Guatemala's
Disaster
Reduction
National
Coordinator
reported
5,917
victims
and
1,070
damaged
homes,
including
2,000
with
slight
damage,
37
moderate
and 31
at-risk.
Five
people
were
killed
in
Chiapas
and two
in Nuevo
Leon,
Mexico,
after
Matthew
entered
that
country
on
Saturday
from
Belize,
affecting
the
states
of
Chiapas,
Tabasco,
Veracruz,
Campeche
and
Nuevo
Leon as
a
tropical
depression.
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