VERACRUZ, Mexico — Tropical Storm Ingrid and the remnants of Tropical Storm Manuel drenched Mexico’s Pacific and Gulf coasts with torrential rains Monday, flooding towns and cities, cutting off highways, and setting off deadly landslides in a national emergency that federal authorities said had caused at least 34 deaths.
The governor of the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz said Monday 12 people had been killed when a landslide hit a bus traveling through the town of Altotonga, about 40 miles northwest of the state capital. Governor Javier Duarte said the death toll could grow as bodies were recovered.
More than 23,000 people have fled their homes in the state because of heavy rains and 9,000 are in emergency shelters.
The heaviest blow Sunday fell on the southern coastal state of Guerrero, where Mexico’s government reported 15 confirmed deaths. State officials said people had been killed in landslides, drownings in a swollen river, and a truck crash on a rain-slickened mountain highway.
Manuel came ashore as a tropical storm Sunday afternoon near the Pacific port of Manzanillo, but quickly began losing strength and was downgraded to a tropical depression late Sunday, although officials warned its rains could still cause flash floods and mudslides. Ingrid also was expected to bring very heavy rains. It had maximum sustained winds of 60 miles per hour and was centered about 25 miles west of the coastal town of La Pesca in the border state of Tamaulipas.