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Liputan6.com, Managua: Tropical Storm Alex, the season's first hurricane in the Atlantic, killing at least 10 people in Central America, local media reported on Monday (28/60.

Hundreds of people were evacuated from lowland areas in El Salvador, when Alex storms into the Gulf of Mexico. Six people were killed and their bodies were found drifting in the River San Lucas, said an official with Nicaragua. In the western part of Guatemala, a landslide buried two farmers as they worked on a road improvement project, the Office of Emergency Response, Conred, reported. Merurut U.S. National Disaster Management Center, Alex is still going strong storms on Tuesday (29 / 6) local time Wednesday (Indonesia time).

Hurricane season this year came not as usual. Pacific typhoon, Agatha, who appeared before the June 1 killing 156 people in Guatemala. Tropical storm Alex was somewhat weakened after the rain down in Belize, but continue to create gusts of wind and driving rain, the National Hurricane Center said the United States (USCG). Nevertheless, the storm did not immediately threaten the activities of oil drilling in wells Macondo of BP Plc (British Petroleum), U.S. Coast Guard said.

Alex, the first hurricane of the Atlantic hurricane season in 2010, has a wind speed of nearly 65 km per hour and was at about 90 km west of Chetumal, Mexico. The storm was expected to subside when entering Belize and the Yucatan Peninsula, said Miami-based hurricane center.

Atlantic cyclone began to move on June 1 to 30 November and meteorological experts predict this year will be the most prone to hurricanes. (Ant / AFP)