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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Two Major Storms Hit Mexico, 41 Killed

Rain water pours into the beach due to heavy rains caused by Tropical Storm Manuel in the Pacific resort city of Acapulco, Mexico, Sunday, Sept. 15, 2013. Flooding and landslides unleashed by Hurricane Ingrid and Tropical Storm Manuel have claimed at least a dozen lives in Mexico and sparked the evacuations of thousands of people even before the weather systems had made landfall on the country’s east and west coasts. (AP Photo/Bernandino Hernandez)

Tropical Depression Ingrid hit Mexico’s northern Gulf coast, while the remnants of Tropical Storm Manuel hit the Mexico’s Pacific coast, causing some of the worst flooding in decades.

The storms have affected two-thirds of the entire country brought very strong winds, heavy rains that caused flash floods and landslides.

Buildings were damaged, roads were washed out 

At least 41 people were killed in the states of Veracruz, Guerrero, Puebla, Hidalgo, Michoacan and Oaxaca by the flooding and landslides.

Acapulco was hardest hit where at least 21 people were killed as buildings collapsed and roads were transformed into raging rivers.

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Members of the Mexican Navy secure a flooded area in Acapulco to prevent theft and robbery. AFP

Rain water pours into the beach due to heavy rains caused by Tropical Storm Manuel in the Pacific resort city of Acapulco, Mexico, Sunday, Sept. 15, 2013. Flooding and landslides unleashed by Hurricane Ingrid and Tropical Storm Manuel have claimed at least a dozen lives in Mexico and sparked the evacuations of thousands of people even before the weather systems had made landfall on the country’s east and west coasts. (AP Photo/Bernandino Hernandez)

Tropical Storm Manuel edged onto Mexico’s Pacific coast Sunday while Hurricane Ingrid swirled offshore on the other side of the country, as heavy rains and landslides caused at least 13 deaths and led authorities to evacuate thousands. (Sept. 15)

Soldiers search for survivors after a bus and two nearby houses were buried by a mountain landslide in Altotonga in Veracruz state, along Mexico’s Gulf coast, September 16, 2013. REUTERS/Oscar Martinez

Soldiers and police work around the wreckage of a bus after it was buried by a mountain landslide at Altotonga in Veracruz state, along Mexico’s Gulf coast, September 16, 2013. REUTERS/Oscar Martinez

Soldiers lift a portion of a bus out of the mud after it was buried by a mountain landslide in Altotonga in Veracruz state, along Mexico’s Gulf coast, September 16, 2013. REUTERS/Oscar Martinez

People stand in a house flooded by mud after a mountain landslide in Altotonga in Veracruz state, along Mexico’s Gulf coast, September 16, 2013. REUTERS/Oscar Martinez

Soldiers stand on the remains of a bus after it was buried by a mountain landslide in Altotonga in Veracruz state, along Mexico’s Gulf coast, September 16, 2013. REUTERS/Oscar Martinez

Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean region are pictured in this September 16, 2013 NASA satellite handout photo, which shows the remains of Tropical Storm Ingrid on the east coast of Mexico. REUTERS/NASA/Handout via Reuters