Tropical storm takes aim at Mexico's Baja peninsula

MEXICO CITY, Sept 2 (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Henriette, which killed six people on Mexico's Pacific coast, headed for the Baja California peninsula on Sunday and was likely to strengthen to a hurricane before hitting land.

The storm dumped heavy rain on the resort of Acapulco on Saturday, dislodging a boulder that crushed a man and his two children and triggering a mudslide that killed three others.

Henriette, carrying top sustained winds of almost 70 mph (112 kph), was forecast to pass near the Los Cabos beach resort on Tuesday before striking a sparsely populated desert area, the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said.

Los Cabos, at the tip on the peninsula, is a major golfing and sports fishing center popular with U.S. tourists.

A tropical storm becomes a hurricane when maximum sustained winds reach 74 mph (119 kph).

In the Caribbean, Hurricane Felix grew rapidly to become an extremely dangerous Category 5 storm on Sunday as it swept toward Central America and Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula.

Felix was due to pass Honduras and strike Belize on Wednesday before moving into southeastern Mexico.