Hurricane Otis batters hotels and sends tourists running for cover in Acapulco

Storm is one of the most powerful ever to hit Mexico’s coast, and brought heavy rainfall, floods and hurricane-force winds to south

Hurricane Otis has ripped through the Mexican beach resort of Acapulco as a category 4 storm, battering hotels and sending tourists running for cover as it pummeled the southern Pacific coast with torrential rain and high winds.

Videos broadcast on social media showed rooms wrecked by the passing of the hurricane, ceilings and walls ripped open and cars partly submerged in floodwaters as the southern state of Guerrero awoke to the disarray left in its wake.