Mexico’s Sheinbaum urges coastal residents to remain indoor as storm

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum urged residents along the country’s Pacific coast to remain indoors on Sunday as powerful Category 4 Hurricane Simon approached Mexico’s west-central coast, threatening destructive winds, dangerous storm surges and potentially deadly flooding.
Simon was located about 105 km west-northwest of the port city of Manzanillo, in Colima state, with maximum sustained winds of 230 kph, the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said in its latest advisory.