Mexico quake: Rescuers race to find missing children at destroyed schoolhouse

Rescue teams frantically sifted through debris of a flattened schoolhouse in Mexico City Wednesday, in a race to find dozens of children who remain unaccounted for hours after a 7.1-magnitude earthquake hit.


The powerful quake hit Tuesday afternoon in Chiautla de Tapia, a small town in Puebla state 80 miles south of Mexico City, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

The quake collapsed an elementary school and killed 21 children, Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto said at the Enrique Rebsamen school in southeastern Mexico City.

Four adults died at the school and others are missing. Eleven people were rescued there overnight, Mexican Education Minister Aurelio Nuño Mayer said.

Officials said the death toll was at 217 by Wednesday morning -- more than 100 in Mexico City alone. Twelve more people were found dead in the state of Mexico, outside of the capital; 72 died in the state of Morales, 43 in Puebla , three in Guerrero and one in Oaxaca.
  [upi.com]
 20/9/17
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