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Tropical storm Lidia leaves 4 dead in Mexico

In Mexico, Tropical Storm Lidia has left at least four people dead in its sweep across country's Baja California peninsula, wrecking infrastructure and homes along the way. <br/><br/>Authorities said today that two people were electrocuted and two including a child drowned trying to cross a raging stream to safety. The state emergency agency said in a report that Lidia has been wreaking havoc up and down Mexico's Pacific coast and as far inland as Mexico City since Wednesday.<br/><br/>It made landfall early today and is slowly churning across the peninsula, which is home to the swank strip of beach resorts known as Los Cabos.<br/><br/>According to the US National Hurricane Centre's 2100 GMT update, Lidia has maximum sustained winds of 95 kilometres per hour and is expected to dump 15 to 30 centimetres of rain on the Baja California up to 50 centimetres in some areas before exiting the peninsula late today and weakening.<br/><br/>Tourists were evacuated from the resort towns of Cabo San Lucas and San Jose del Cabo and taken to shelters set up by the authorities. Some 1,000 people sought refuge in shelters in the state capital La Paz and another 3,000 in Los Cabos.<br/><br/>

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