Mexico City, Sep 27 (AP) Tropical Storm John has caused a total of eight deaths in southern Mexico, and five days of heavy rains have generated severe flooding and mudslides in the Pacific coast resort of Acapulco.

John, in its second incarnation, was lingering off the Pacific coast just short of a second landfall early Friday. It hit further east on the coast Monday as a Category 3 hurricane.

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The flooding is so bad in Acapulco — which still hasn't recovered from Hurricane Otis last October — that the head of the municipal civil defense agency said authorities were starting to use boats inside the city to rescue people from low-lying neighbourhoods. Residents posted videos and photos of cars floating away in floodwaters, and people rescued from raging waters using life lines.

“We are getting boats to start carrying out more effective evacuations,” Efrén Valdez, civil protection coordinator for Acapulco, told the Milenio Television station. “The situation is very complicated.”

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Officials have confirmed one boy was swept away by floodwaters in Acapulco and four others were killed in other parts of the coastal state of Guerrero, where Acapulco is located. Governor Salomón Jara of the neighbouring state of Oaxaca, said that three people had died there as a result of floods or mudslides related to John.

John was churning along the coast of Michoacan state early Friday about 55 miles (85 km) west of the port Lazaro Cardenas, according to the US National Hurricane Centre. It was moving north-northwest at 3 mph (6 kmh). The storm had maximum sustained winds of 60 mph (85 kph). (AP)

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