Hurricane Jova kills 5 in Mexico, another storm kills 13

At least five people were killed and six others were injured after hurricane Jova slammed into Mexico''s Pacific coast yesterday. Meanwhile, another tropical storm hit farther south and unleashed steady rains that contributed to 13 more deaths across the border in Guatemala. Jova came ashore west of the Mexican port of Manzanillo and the beach town of Barra de Navidad before dawn with 100 mph (160 kph) winds and heavy rains, before moving inland and weakening to a tropical depression by afternoon. It continued to dump rain over a large swath of northwest Mexico, including Jalisco state where rainfall this year had been low. In the neighboring state of Jalisco, Jova triggered a mudslide in the town of Cihuatlan, just inland from Barra de Navidad, that swept away a house on a hillside, killing a 21-year-old woman and her daughter, Jalisco civil protection officials said in a statement. The new tropical storm formed in the Pacific off far-southern Mexico near the Guatemala border, with maximum sustained winds near 35 mph (55 kph), the US National Hurricane Center reported. The storm quickly moved ashore over Mexico and was expected to move slightly north before dissipating before day's end