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/ 6 November 2007
A huge wall of mud and water engulfed a remote village in flood-ravaged southern Mexico on Monday and the government said at least 16 people were missing. Mexican media reported as many as 30 people could be missing in the landslide.
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/ 5 November 2007
Thousands more people were plucked from rooftops in southern Mexico on Sunday even as floods that have left 800 000 people homeless in Tabasco state began to recede, authorities said. The army evacuated 5 000 people in a four-hour operation with 14 helicopters, police official Daniel Montiel said.
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/ 2 November 2007
Tens of thousands of Mexicans were trapped on rooftops and others clung to lampposts on Thursday after heavy rains flooded nearly the entire southern state of Tabasco. At least 500 000 people were made homeless and one person was killed in the worst flooding the swampy state has seen in more than 50 years.
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/ 25 October 2007
A storm killed 18 Mexican oil workers fleeing a battered offshore rig, and navy rescue teams were searching on Wednesday for seven people missing in the turbulent seas. State-owned oil monopoly Pemex said 61 people had been rescued after huge waves knocked the Usumacinta drilling platform into an adjacent rig.