Hurricane Alex makes landfall, kills eight in Mexico
MEXICO CITY. July 1. KAZINFORM Hurricane Alex killed eight people in two separate incidents in Monterrey, the capital city of the northern Mexican state Nuevo Leon, civil protection authorities said Wednesday; Kazinform refers to Xinhua.
Hurricane Alex, which is now category two and has a radius of 110 km, has already killed 11 people across Central America and southern Mexico. Moreover, it has caused floods across southern Mexico. It has steady winds of 155 km per hour (kph) and gusts of up to 185 kph.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said the storm has made its landfall in northern Mexico Wednesday night.
Hurricane warnings have been dropped for the South Texas coast, according to local officials, and downgraded to tropical storm warnings.
However, forecasters said rainbands and squalls from Alex will continue along the Gulf coast from the U.S. state of Louisiana through Texas; Kazinform cites Xinhua.
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