Hurricane Newton pummelled Mexico's northwestern resort of Los Cabos on Tuesday, uprooting trees and blowing away tin roofs as thousands of tourists and locals hunkered down. The US National Hurricane Center said in its latest bulletin that Newton was "battering Baja California Sur (state) with strong winds and heavy rains." Some 14,000 tourists are in Los Cabos and about 1,000 elsewhere in the region. Some 1,500 people took refuge in shelters in Los Cabos, Vazquez said. The US hurricane centre's latest advisory placed Newton 80 kilometres west of La Paz at 1500 GMT.

Source: dna September 06, 2016 18:22 UTC