Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Four dead as Tropical Storm Lidia lashes Baja California

Tropical Storm Lidia has caused four deaths in Mexico’s Los Cabos, officials said Friday as it continued to lash the resort-studded southern Baja California Peninsula with heavy rains.

Arturo de la Rosa Escalante, mayor of the twin resorts of Los Cabos, said two people were electrocuted by power lines, a woman drowned after being swept away by water on a flooded street and a baby was ripped from its mother’s arms as she crossed a flooded area.

About 1,400 people sought refuge at storm shelters.

The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Lidia made landfall early . . .

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