By IANS
Villahermosa (Mexico) : Mexico’s President Felipe Calderon has called on his countrymen to urgently come to the help flood devastated southern state of Tabasco where more than one million people have been affected by the country’s worst flood in recent memory.
Spanish news agency EFE quoted Calderon as saying Thursday more than 80 percent of the state has been inundated and at least 300,000 people stranded on rooftops and trees.
In Villahermosa, the capital of Tabasco, almost all the dikes have been breached, Governor Andres Granier told reporters. Television stations have reported dozens missing in Greater Villahermosa.
Felipe Arreguin, the technical chief of National Water Commission, told newspersons that all rivers in other parts of the state were also overflowing and all dams were on the verge of bursting.