{"id":222151,"date":"2025-10-13T18:47:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T18:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/222151\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T18:47:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T18:47:06","slug":"mexico-floods-leave-at-least-64-dead-and-65-missing-authorities-say-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/222151\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico floods leave at least 64 dead and 65 missing, authorities say | Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The death toll from flooding in central and eastern <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/mexico\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mexico<\/a> has risen sharply to at least 64, with another 65 still missing, authorities said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The flooding, caused by intense rainfall, was focused mostly in the Veracruz, Hidalgo and Puebla states, said Laura Vel\u00e1zquez, the head of Mexico\u2019s civil defense authorities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The toll rose by 17 from just 12 hours earlier, indicating the still unfolding scale of the disaster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The floods sent overflowing rivers through entire villages, triggered landslides and swept away roads and bridges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">President Claudia Sheinbaum said that thousands of troops as well as boats, planes and helicopters had been deployed to assist the rescue efforts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The military will help distribute aid in affected areas, with more than 10,000 troops deployed, along with rescue equipment and vehicles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Shelters were open for those displaced from their homes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/mexico\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mexico<\/a> has been hit by particularly heavy rains throughout 2025, with a rainfall record set in the capital Mexico City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The death toll from flooding in central and eastern Mexico has risen sharply to at least 64, with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":{"0":"post-222151","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}