Mexico city, On Sunday, Mountain communities in two Mexican states are recovering from weekend mudslides that killed 39 people during heavy rains brought by remnants of Hurricane Earl.

At least 28 people died in multiple mudslides in the mountainous north of Puebla state, National Civil Protection Coordinator Luis Felipe Puente said.

He added that, 25 of the dead were in various parts of the township of Huauchinango and three were in Tlaola.

Heavy rain continued in the area, leading officials to close a section of the main federal highway connecting Mexico City to the region.

“It is a tragedy what has happened to our people in Huauchinango,” Gabriel Alvarado, mayor of the township of Huauchinango, said in a statement issued before the full death toll had been determined.

He said the torrential rain caused damage affecting at least 200 people.