Floods in Tabasco, Mexico impact over a million people

From Wikinews, the free news source you can write!

Saturday, November 3, 2007

Location of Tabasco within Mexico.

Floods have affected over a million people in the Mexican State of Tabasco, mainly in the capital of the state, Villahermosa. This has escalated in the last days into becoming the state's worst catastrophe in its history.

Eighty percent of the state's territory is underwater due to the Grijalva river flooding and heavy rains, which are expected to continue over the next few days.

Mexican president Felipe Calderón defined the situation as critical and urged all Mexicans to give their support.

Helicopters and boats are being used to move people from rooftops and hospital patients are being flown to neighbouring states.

Industry has also been affected as mentioned by Tabasco governor Andres Granier, who said that 100% of the tabasco pepper crops had been lost.

He also compared the damage caused by Hurricane Katrina on the US Gulf Coast two years ago, saying that New Orleans was "small compared to this".

Sources

• "Mexico head pledges disaster aid". BBC News Online, November 3, 2007
• "Tabasco: Suman un millón de damnificados". El Universal, November 2, 2007 ((Spanish))
• "INUNDACIONES EN TABASCO AFECTAN A UN MILLON DE PERSONAS". Ansa Mediterranean, November 2, 2007 ((Spanish))
  

Share this:

This page is archived, and is no longer publicly editable. Got a correction? Add the template {{editprotected}} to the talk page along with your corrections, and it will be brought to the attention of the administrators. Please note that due to our archival policy, we will not alter or update the content of articles that are archived, but will only accept requests to make grammatical and formatting corrections. Note that some listed sources or external links may no longer be available online due to age.