Tropical Storm Gamma leaves 5 dead in southern Mexico

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Authorities in Mexico say at least 5 people died and thousands were evacuated in southeastern Mexico after Tropical Storm Gamma lashed the Yucatan Peninsula’s resort-studded coast with near-hurricane force winds and drenched Tabasco and Chiapas states. Mexico’s civil defense agency said four of the deaths, including two children, were in Chiapas, where a landslide on a mountainous slope buried their home. The other death was in Tabasco state, where a person w