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MEXICO: Hurricane Lorenzo hits Mexico, causing a mudslide that kills three, friends and family mourn the dead as the clear up begins
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MEXICO: Hurricane Lorenzo hits Mexico, causing a mudslide that kills three, friends and family mourn the dead as the clear up begins

Hurricane Lorenzo crashed into Mexico's Gulf coast on Friday (September 28), killing three people in a mudslide and knocking out power to 85,000 homes. In the coastal fishing town of Nautla, Lorenzo's 80 mph (130 kph) winds ripped off bits of roofs, blew down trees and scattered debris in the streets. The heavy rains caused a mudslide that killed three people in a village in the Sierra Madre mountains of Puebla state. Friends and family mourned the dead on Saturday. Epifanio Nava lost his daughter in the mudslide. He's sick and says he can't walk. When he saw the coffins he started to cry. "No, God, it is not possible. My children... they are my people who I lost," he said. Lorenzo made landfall overnight close to Nautla as a Category 1 hurricane, the lowest rank on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale, and quickly lost power, becoming a tropical depression with winds of 25 mph (35 kph). Around 100,000 people on the coast were evacuated. 85,000 homes were left without electricity. Lorenzo was the third hurricane to hit Mexico in the last few weeks after Dean and Henriette pounded its Caribbean and Pacific coasts.

ITN Source | September 30, 2007