PUEBLA: Landslides triggered by Tropical Storm Earl have left at least seven dead in eastern Mexico, as a new storm threatened the country's Pacific coast.
The approaching Tropical Storm Javier is expected to bring heavy rains and high winds to southwestern Mexico in the coming days, US weather forecasters said.
The latest mudslide in the town of Huauchinango killed at least one person and buried 13 houses under rubble, according to the Puebla state government.
A state official told AFP Sunday that up to 10 more people may be missing.
A landslide in the state of Veracruz left another six people dead on Saturday.
The Miami-based National Hurricane Center said Javier was about 50 miles (80 kilometers) southwest of Manzanillo, Mexico.
"On the forecast track, the center of the tropical cyclone should pass near or over the southwest coast of Mexico later today, and approach the southern portion of the Baja California peninsula on Monday," the center said.
The storm was packing maximum sustained winds of 45 miles per hour with higher gusts and was expected to dump four to six inches of rain in western Mexico, it said.
Another tropical storm, Ivette, also was swirling in the eastern Pacific, but it was far from land and expected to weaken later in the day, according to the NHC.
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