Locals embrace outside a flooded house in Poza Rica, Mexico, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025, after widespread flooding and landslides. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)
Damaged vehicles sit in mud after flooding in Poza Rica, Veracruz state, Mexico, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)
A local holds a rescued cat in Poza Rica, Veracruz state, Mexico, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025, after rain and flooding. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)
A pickup truck hangs over a fence in Poza Rica, Veracruz state, Mexico, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025, after rain and flooding. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)
A man who cleaning flooded homes takes a break in Poza Rica, Veracruz state, Mexico, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)
Houses sit damaged after flooding in Poza Rica, Veracruz state, Mexico, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)
Arturo Huidobro, center, and a worker prepare to remove dead pigs from a farm following heavy rainfall in Poza Rica, Veracruz state, Mexico, Saturday, Oct. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)
A plush toy lies in the mud inside a flooded house in Poza Rica, Veracruz state, Mexico, Monday, Oct. 13, 2025, after torrential rains. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)
A man hangs recovered belongings inside a flooded house in Poza Rica, Veracruz state, Mexico, on Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2025, after landslides and torrential rain. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)
A Marine helps a woman cross a flooded street in Poza Rica, Veracruz state, Mexico, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)
A woman walks through a damaged bus station after heavy rainfall in Poza Rica, Veracruz state, Mexico, Saturday, Oct. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)
A boy evacuated from Chapula receives medical aid at an improvised shelter in Bella Vista, Hidalgo state, Mexico, Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2025, after torrential rains. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
People arrive at Bella Vista, Hidalgo state, Mexico, after evacuating Chapula, Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2025, after torrential rains. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
People clean the Olvera Gomez family's house in Poza Rica, Veracruz state, Mexico, Monday, Oct. 13, 2025, after torrential rains. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)
People loot a supermarket damaged by heavy rainfall in Poza Rica, Veracruz state, Mexico, Saturday, Oct. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)
President Claudia Sheinbaum, left, and Veracruz Gov. Rocío Nahle García survey authorities' aid distribution in Poza Rica, Mexico, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025, after widespread flooding and landslides. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)
Portraits hang on the Ramirez family's houses wall in Poza Rica, Veracruz state, Mexico, Monday, Oct. 13, 2025, after torrential rains. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)
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9:36 PM on Sunday, October 12
By FELIX MARQUEZ
POZA RICA, Mexico (AP) — Flooding and landslides over the past week have cut off 300 towns in central and eastern Mexico and left dozens of people dead and missing. Soldiers and rescue workers were scrambling to help civilians to safety and unblock roads. The flooding followed the convergence of two tropical storms off Mexico’s western coast at the end of an unusually heavy rainy season that swelled rivers and weakened hillsides.
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