Resort battered by Hurricane Wilma

Mexico’s popular Cancun resort area has taken a battering from Hurricane Wilma as tourists huddled in hotels and shelters amid howling winds and shattering glass.

The eye of the category 3 storm, which had already killed 13 people, first slammed into Cozumel Island – the worst-hit, and now cut off – and then headed north-northwest to the beach town of Playa de Carmen, south of Cancun.