Mexico City earthquake: At least 216 people dead after huge 7.1 magnitude earthquake strikes capital

‘The death toll following the devastating Mexico earthquake now stands at 216, according to the country’s civil protection agency.
Interior Minister Miguel Angel Osorio Chong had earlier said the total was at least 226, but this was quickly revised up to 248 on Wednesday morning, before coming back down.
Central Mexico was struck by a 7.1 magnitude quake yesterday evening and a citywide recovery operation is currently underway in the capital.
Some 86 people are thought to have died in the city itself. Among those killed were at least 20 children in a school where buildings collapsed.
A mix of neighborhood volunteers, police and firefighters used trained dogs and their bare hands to search through the school’s rubble. Reports swept through the crowd of anxious parents outside the gates that relatives in two families had received Whatsapp messages from girls trapped inside, but that could not be confirmed.’

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