Mexico City - Floods in central and southern Mexico killed five people including a 4-year-old girl and a U.S. tourist, rescue workers said on Wednesday.

Around 7,000 people were evacuated in the southern state of Oaxaca, where the U.S. tourist drowned in fierce waves off a Pacific coast beach, a state civil protection official said.

The heavy rains at the start of the rainy season also soaked the oil-producing state of Veracruz in the Gulf of Mexico but oil exporting ports were open on Wednesday, the government said.

Mexico faced huge floods last year when weeks of heavy rain put the banana-growing state of Tabasco under water in a disaster that cost insurers $700 million, according to an industry group.