Iota’s devastation comes into focus in storm-weary Nicaragua

People stand by a flooded street near a river that overflowed its banks after the passing of Iota in La Lima, Honduras (Delmer Martinez/AP)

The devastation caused by Hurricane Iota became clearer on Wednesday as images emerged showing the trail of ruin left by the second Category 4 storm to blast Nicaragua’s Caribbean coast in two weeks.

Nicaragua vice president and first lady Rosario Murillo has raised the nation’s death toll to 16.