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Mexico:Hurricane:2007/10/31

Duration	2007/10/31	Around half a million Mexicans were made homeless and one man died on 31 October 2007 as heavy rains devastated the southern Mexican state of Tabasco.
Country or District	Mexico
Name	Hurricane

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Personal Injury	Material Damage	Others
OCHA Situation Report No.1 2007/11/03
[in the State of Tabasco] Some 60,000 families are affected; 10,000 people were rescued; 69,000 people have been evacuated to 315 temporary shelters 350,000 people trapped in their homes [in the State of Chiapas] 4 dead 11,000 affected 2,500 are in shelters	[in the State of Chiapas] Some 5,000 houses have been damaged. Some 300 kilometers of roads have been affected.	All crops had been destroyed, most of the state's business sectors had been affected. Rains have caused landslides that damaged the road network. More than 100 medical centres have been affected, in addition to 300 schools. Electricity is cut for 90% of the residents of the city of Villahermosa.

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Report/Articles Reuters AlertNet 2007/11/05 A huge wall of mud and water engulfed a remote village in flood-ravaged southern Mexico on 5 November and the government said at least 16 people were missing. OCHA ReliefWeb　2007/11/05 Sixteen feared missing in Mexico mudslide CNN.com 2007/11/04 Mexico flood toll rises to eight OCHA Situation Report No.1 2007/11/03 The Governor of Tabasco has declared that there are 350,000 people trapped in their homes while estimating that flooding had affected half the state\'s 2.1 million residents. Reuters AlertNet 2007/11/01 Around half a million Mexicans were made homeless and one man died on 31 October as heavy rains devastated the southern Mexican state of Tabasco.

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