US military helicopters flew in aid to survivors in central America as Gamma, the 24th major storm in a record-breaking hurricane season, weakened after killing 14 people.
Gamma slowed to a tropical depression today and meandered off the Honduran coast with maximum sustained winds of 55kph.
It was expected to dissipate by tomorrow, the US National Hurricane Centre in Miami said.
The storm swiped Central America on Saturday and killed at least 14 people, three in a plane crash on its way to a luxury jungle lodge owned by film director Francis Ford Coppola.
In Honduras, 11 people died, seven in raging river waters and four in mudslides. Another 13 people were missing and about 12,000 evacuees remained in shelters.
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