Photos: Flooded Mexico, 47 Killed

Floodwaters rage past an urban area after the Huacapa River overflowed due to heavy rains caused by Tropical Storm Manuel in Chilpancingo, Mexico. (Image: AP Photo/Alejandrino Gonzalez)

47 people were killed after two tropical storms hit the opposite coasts of Mexico.

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A huge number of buildings, houses, roads, highways and bridges were damaged.

In Acapulco, at least 40,000 tourists, mainly Mexican were stranded. 

Acapulco was cut off from road transport after heavy rains due to Tropical Storm Manuel caused at least 13 landslides, rockslides, floods and collapsed bridges.

Federal officials said it could take at least another day to open the main highway to Acapulco.

The situation was far more serious in the city’s low-income neighbourhoods where rain water flowed from the nearby steep hills into the neighbourhoods causing flood and landslides.

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People stand next to a damaged home after a landslide caused by heavy rains in a low income neighbourhood in the city of Chilpancingo, Mexico, Monday Sept. 16, 2013. (Image: AP Photo/Alejandrino Gonzales)

A building is engulfed in rocks and mud triggered by heavy rains brought by Tropical Storm Manuel on the outskirts of Acapulco, Mexico, Monday Sept. 16, 2013. (Image: AP Photo/Bernandino Hernandez)

Mud and rubble cover vehicles and homes were swept away after a landslide caused by heavy rains came down on a low income neighbourhood in the city of Chilpancingo, Mexico, Monday Sept. 16, 2013. (Image: AP Photo/Alejandrino Gonzales)

Floodwaters rage past an urban area after the Huacapa River overflowed due to heavy rains caused by Tropical Storm Manuel in Chilpancingo, Mexico. (Image: AP Photo/Alejandrino Gonzalez)

Floodwaters race down a street after the Huacapa River overflowed due to heavy rains caused by Tropical Storm Manuel in Chilpancingo, Mexico. (Image: AP Photo/Alejandrino Gonzalez)

Floodwaters rage past an urban area after the Huacapa River overflowed due to heavy rains caused by Tropical Storm Manuel in Chilpancingo, Mexico. (Image: AP Photo/Alejandrino Gonzalez)

Floodwaters rage past an urban area after the Huacapa River overflowed due to heavy rains caused by Tropical Storm Manuel in Chilpancingo, Mexico. (Image: AP Photo/Alejandrino Gonzalez)

Teenagers stand near a broken bridge due to heavy rains caused by two storms battering the country, in El Infiernillo, Michoacan state, Mexico. (Image: Agencia Quadratin/AFP/Getty Images)

A young man carrying a stolen computer wades through a flooded street in Acapulco, Mexico. (Image: STR/AFP/Getty Images)

A car floats in a flooded street in Acapulco, Mexico, after heavy rains hit the area on September 16, 2013. (Image: STR/AFP/Getty Images)

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