Five missing in floods in western Venezuela

At least two people were dead, five missing and 25,000 affected as Hurricane Beryl ripped through northeast Venezuela's Sucre state, Interior and Justice Minister Remigio Ceballos said on Tuesday.

Since early Tuesday, Sucre state was flooded by rain dumped by Beryl, which also led the area's Manzanares River to overflow. The category 5 hurricane had maximum sustained winds of 270 km per hour as it moved at 35 km per hour across the Venezuelan Caribbean, according to an early morning report issued by the National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology.