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Veracruz Floods: Search Continues for 8 Missing as Health and Recovery Strains Grow

Search crews deploy dogs, drones plus an air bridge to reach 12 cut-off communities.

Overview

  • Authorities report 35 people found dead and eight still unlocated, including a teacher and her daughter in Ilamatlán, with canine units and drones leading the searches.
  • Twelve communities remain without ground access after initial isolation of 58 localities, and a permanent air bridge supplies food, medicine and medical staff to sierra towns including Huayacocotla, Zontecomatlán, Ilamatlán and Texcatepec.
  • The disaster affected 38 municipalities and damaged more than 56,000 homes, while 489 schools were hit and 346 have received attention, with classes still suspended in eight municipalities.
  • Poza Rica faces a worsening sanitation situation as massive cleanup exposes residents to decomposing debris and overwhelms local response capacity.
  • Small businesses report severe losses and say promised aid has not arrived, and state leaders warn some roads and bridges may require up to a year to fully restore in coordination with the federal government.