HURRICANE Ernesto has come ashore on Mexico's Caribbean coast near the border with Belize, after hundreds of tourists left beach resorts and fishermen abandoned low-lying villages to avoid the threat.
Ernesto, which started the day as a tropical storm, had sustained winds of 85mph as its centre moved over the shore town of Mahahual, the US National Hurricane Centre said.
It said the storm was moving west and was expected to weaken as it proceeded across the Yucatan Peninsula.
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