Emergency crews and ordinary people were digging with their bare hards through rubble in search of trapped survivors after a powerful earthquake stuck central Mexico on Tuesday, toppling dozens of buildings and killing at least 216 people.
The magnitude 7.1 quake, the deadliest to hit the nation since 1985, struck shortly after 1pm local time, causing violent, prolonged shaking which flattened buildings and sent masonry tumbling onto streets, crushing cars and people in the capital Mexico City and surrounding areas.
The earthquake also appeared to have triggered an eruption of Mexico’s Popocatépetl volcano. In Atzitzihuacan on the slopes of the volcano, a church collapsed during mass, killing 15 people, Puebla governor Jose Antonio Gali said.
As night fell across the region hit by the quake rescuers armed with cutting equipment and sniffer dogs scrambled to reach survivors pinned inside in ruins of offices and apartment blocks amid plumes of dust and wailing sirens. Power blackouts left much of the capital in darkness. Many people remained outdoors, fearful of aftershocks.
Mexico rocked by 7.1-magnitude earthquake on anniversary of deadly 1985 quake
AT least 21 children were killed when their school collapsed after a 7.1-magnitude earthquake that’s devastated Mexico. The death toll is at 224.
MORE than 220 people are believed dead after a powerful earthquake hit Mexico on the anniversary of a 1985 quake that killed thousands.
High-rise buildings have collapsed in plumes of dust as thousands fled into the streets in panic.
The count continues to rise rapidly, given as emergency crews and hundreds of volunteers are digging through the debris of at least 44 collapsed buildings in the capital alone, looking for survivors and bodies.
“I’m so worried. I can’t stop crying. It’s the same nightmare as in 1985,” Georgina Sanchez, 52, sobbed in a plaza in the capital.
One of the many structures to tumble was a school in the country’s capital that killed at least 21 children inside, a government official said.
Dah 217 orang jadi mangsa antaranya 21 orang kanak2 sekolah. Banyak bencana alam kawasan sana sekarang ni dengan hurricane Maria yang melanda Puerto Rico lagi.
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