MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A fierce storm killed four Mexican oil workers and helicopter rescue teams were searching on Wednesday for several still missing in rolling seas after they fled an offshore rig damaged by 8-meter waves.
The bad weather shut Mexico's top three oil exporting ports in the crude-rich Gulf of Mexico for a second day, suspending most of the country's oil shipments to the United States. Port officials saw it unlikely they would reopen before Thursday.
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