A woman gives her daughter a piggyback ride across a flooded area in Galveston, Texas (Stuart Villanueva/The Galveston County Daily News via AP)At least six people have died in southern Mexico as Storm Gamma bashes the Yucatan Peninsula’s resort-studded coast. Thousands have also been evacuated as the storm has reached near-hurricane force winds. Two other people died in Tabasco state with one person being dragged away by water and another drowning. More than half a million people have been affected by the storm which has caused extreme rain in the Yucatan Peninsula and Chiapas. The storm reached maximum sustained winds of 110kph - which is just 9kph short of being considered a hurricane.

Source: Irish Independent October 05, 2020 07:41 UTC