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The death toll from the past week's torrential rain-related flooding across five states in eastern Mexico, especially in Hidalgo and Veracruz, increases to 64, with 257 others still missing. At least 100,000 homes, 59 medical facilities, and 308 schools across the region are damaged by water and oil from the Gulf of Mexico.
2025-10-14

At least four people are shot dead in a mechanical workshop in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, Mexico. This is the second massacre this week in the state, the other in Perote, which left three workers dead and one wounded.
2025-02-28

A traffic collision between a truck and a bus kills eight people and injures 27 others in Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico.
2024-12-27

A Cessna Citation III goes missing with three people near Veracruz, Mexico. All three occupants are feared dead. Search and rescue operations ongoing.
2023-07-28

28 people are killed in a bar fire in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, Mexico, that police believe was caused by an attack by drug cartels. Mexican media reports that Molotov cocktails were thrown inside.
2019-08-28

Hurricane Franklin, the Atlantic Ocean's first hurricane of the season, is set to hit Mexico's Gulf state of Veracruz tonight or tomorrow morning. The category 1 storm is expected to lose strength as it moves inland through the oil-producing state.
2017-08-9

Mexican authorities find the bodies of two priests who were kidnapped yesterday in Poza Rica, Veracruz. Authorities find the third abducted person, the driver, alive.
2016-09-19

Mexican marines kill 4 gunmen who tried to steal the body of Angel Enrique Uscanga, a drug boss, in Gulf coast state of Veracruz.
2012-12-30

Hurricane Ernesto makes landfall in the Mexican state of Veracruz causing at least three deaths.
2012-08-9

Hurricane Karl reaches Category 3 strength prior to making landfall in Mexico just north of Veracruz. Two people are killed in a mudslide.
2010-09-17