– Devastating Mexican tornado –
South of the border, Mexico has also felt Mother Nature’s wrath.
A savage twister roared through the Mexican border city of Ciudad Acuna at dawn Monday, killing at least 13 people and flattening hundreds of homes in a deadly six-second blast of carnage, officials said.
Rescuers were scrambling to find a baby that was ripped from his parents by the tornado’s 270-300 kilometer-per-hour (168-186 miles) winds.
“The baby was with his parents, who were catapulted by the tornado and we can’t find the infant,” Mayor Evaristo Lenin Perez said.
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto toured the ravaged city after spending the night there to offer federal assistance.
“It was horrible. It started raining in the morning. Very early, the wind came and everything started to fly around and then it all fell to the ground,” Ciudad Acuna resident Juanita Perez said tearfully.
Coahuila state civil protection director Francisco Martinez told AFP that 44 people were hospitalized and another 242 suffered minor injuries.
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