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HELPLESS WALK. A man walks on a looted supermarket after the passage of Hurricane Otis in Acapulco, Guerrero State, Mexico, on Friday. Otis killed at least 27 people as it lashed Mexico’s beach resort city as a scale-topping category 5 storm, officials said in what residents called a “total disaster.” AFPAcapulco was struggling Saturday to recover from the extraordinarily powerful Hurricane Otis, which claimed 39 lives and provoked widespread power, water and telephone outages.
As aid finally began to arrive after the storm’s devastating landfall — initial estimates report $15 billion in damage — the government on Saturday upped the death toll from the previous report of 27. Thousands of liters of water and food supplies have been distributed in the resort city, home to 790,000 people.
One local woman could be overheard saying: “There is no way to get out of here! I’ll talk to you again when I can. Everything here is gone. It’s horrible.”
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