The tropical paradise of Acapulco is reeling as Category 5 Hurricane Otis unleashes massive floods and widespread destruction, killing 27 people in its wake. 

At least four people, including three military personnel, were still missing as of Thursday morning, a day after the powerful storm made landfall with maximum sustained winds of 165 miles per hour – making it the strongest on record for a landfalling Eastern Pacific tropical cyclone.

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador toured an area of the battered vacation resort city and said that Otis toppled every power-line pole in the zone, leaving most of the city’s one million residents without electricity.

‘The people sheltered, protected themselves and that’s why fortunately there weren’t more tragedies, loss of human life,’ López Obrador. 

López Obrador said Hurricane Otis caused Acapulco’s municipal water system to be shut down and that the main focus would be to restore power to at least 500,000 homes that were left without electricity.

One victim is a solider who died after a wall inside his home collapsed on him, the president said. 

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