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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

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

An overnight prison riot kills seven police officers in Amatlán de los Reyes, Veracruz, Mexico.
2018-04-1

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

Police report 14 suspected criminals, who attacked a police patrol, are killed in a gunbattle with police and Mexican Marines in Veracruz, Mexico. An unknown number fled.
2016-12-5

Twenty people are killed after a bus carrying amateur football players and fans plunges into a river in Veracruz, eastern Mexico.
2016-01-10

2013 Atlantic hurricane season: Tropical Storm Barry is due to make landfall in the Mexican state of Veracruz bringing heavy rain and the risk of flooding.
2013-06-20

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

A farmer in Los Pozos, Veracruz, Mexico opens fire outside a local church after its Good Friday sermon, killing a woman and two children. "[https:--web.archive.org-web-20110728063413-http:--www.wlos.com-template-inews_wire-wires.international-3f78254a-www.wlos.com.shtml (WLOS)]"
2011-04-22