At least five people have been killed as Tropical Storm Bonnie swept through Central America. Four died in Nicaragua and one in El Salvador, officials said. Bonnie, which has since strengthened into a Category 1 hurricane, is expected to move parallel to the coasts of southern Mexico in the coming days, according to the US National Hurricane Center. Meteorologists have warned of life-threatening surf and rip currents. Bonnie made landfall late on Friday on the Caribbean coast in southern Nicaragua and swept north-west across the country to El Salvador’s Pacific coast. All four of those who died in Nicaragua were swept away by rivers which had been turned into raging torrents by the heavy rains. One of victims, 43-year-old Juan Carlos Alemán Mendoza, had been rescuing passengers from a local bus which had been washed away by flooding, local media reported.(BBC)…[+]