Hurricane Barbara Weakens to Tropical Depression After Battering Oaxacan Coast Sayra Cruz - Associated Press
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Two men have been killed after Hurricane Barbara hit Mexico's southern Pacific coast. Report by Andrea Lilly. (itnnews)

AFP Update:  - The authorities on Thursday resumed their search for 12 missing fishermen after Hurricane Barbara hit southern Mexico, as the death toll from the storm rose to three after a man drowned in a river.

Prensa Latina Update: Hurricane Barbara left a toll of 5,000 victims in the southern states of Oaxaca and Chiapas, authorities from both states reported today.

OAXACA, Mexico - Hurricane Barbara drenched a sparsely populated stretch of Mexico's southern Pacific coast with rain Wednesday after making the second-earliest landfall since reliable record-keeping began in 1966. It quickly lost strength over land but not before killing at least two people, including a man identified by local officials as a U.S. surfer.

By evening, Barbara had weakened to a tropical storm, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. On Thursday morning, the Center said that Barbara continues to weaken as it moves inland, dumping heavy rain across portions of southeastern Mexico. Already parts of the state of Chiapas have had 16 inches for rain.

The director of civil defense for Oaxaca state, Manuel Maza Sanchez, said a 61-year-old man from Colorado died while surfing at Playa Azul, a beach near the resort town of Puerto Escondido, when Barbara made landfall at midafternoon as a Category 1 hurricane about 120 miles (200 kilometers) to the east. He said the man was dragged out by waves kicked up by Barbara and then battered against the shore.

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