DHAKA: The number of people confirmed to have died as a result of Tropical Storms Manuel and Ingrid in Mexico now stands at 110, the interior minister says.

Another 68 are still missing, believed dead, after a landslide destroyed the village of La Pintada in western Guerrero state.

President Enrique Pena Nieto asked Congress to increase the federal budget in light of the emergency.

Officials are still trying to evaluate the total extent of the damage.

‘We are confronting rainfall that has practically been the most extensive in the history of the entire national territory,’ president Enrique Pena Nieto said on Sunday.

‘Today we can already anticipate that due to the damages that we have seen, our (emergency) funds are insufficient.’

Mexico interior minister Miguel Angel Osorio Chong said work was under way to establish which areas were worst hit by Tropical Storm Manuel which hit Mexico`s western coast, and Ingrid, which made landfall on its eastern coast last week.

Twenty-four out of Mexico’s 31 states have been affected by the twin storms, reports the BBC.

BDST: 1747 HRS, SEPT 23, 2013
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