SAN JOS: A hurricane that hit Costa Rica on Thursday left some people dead and missing, President Luis Guillermo Solis said, as rescue services worked to provide a number.
Three people died from the passage of Hurricane Otto across the north of the country, a national newspaper, La Nacion, reported. Officials have not confirmed any number.
Solis said in a statement that the hurricane -- which weakened to a tropical storm before exiting into the Pacific Ocean -- had dumped a months' worth of rain in just a few hours.
"We are receiving a big number of incidents," he said, adding that more details would be given later once evaluations had been made.
Otto churned in from the Caribbean on Thursday, initially hitting Nicaragua before moving over northern Costa Rica.
There were no reports of any casualties in Nicaragua.
"Up to now, thanks to God, we haven't counted any loss of human life," the government spokesperson, First Lady Rosario Murillo, told state media. -AFP
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