Earthquake in Mexico : more than 140 killed

A powerful 7.1 magnitude earthquake has killed at least 149 people, including 22 pupils from one school in central Mexico, according to officials.


The tremor on Tuesday struck eight kilometres southeast of Atencingo in the central state of Puebla, some 120km from the capital, Mexico City, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said.

Scores of buildings collapsed into mounds of rubble or were severely damaged in densely populated parts of Mexico City and nearby states.

"At the moment..149 [are] deceased," the director of the government's civil protection service, Luis Felipe Puente, tweeted late on Tuesday.

He said there were 49 deaths in Mexico City.  

In Morelos state, directly south of the capital, at least 55 people were killed.

The state of Puebla, where the epicentre of the earthquake struck, reported at least 32 deaths.

At least 10 people died in Mexico state, which lies just to the west of Mexico City, and in Guerrero, one person died.

President Enrique Pena Nieto said that among those killed were 22 children from the Enrique Rebsamen school in southern Mexico City, adding that 38 were still missing.
 aljazeera.com
 20/9/17
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