17 Patients Die After Floods Hit Mexican Hospital

MEXICO CITY - At least 17 patients died after floods swept through a hospital in central Mexico, disrupting the power supply and oxygen therapy, authorities said Tuesday.   

The facility in the town of Tula in Hidalgo state was inundated after a river overflowed following heavy rain, the government said on Twitter.    "In this honorable job there are good, very good, bad and very bad days; today is one of the latter days," President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador tweeted.  "I am very saddened by the death of 17 hospital patients," he added.