Mexicans Dig Through Quake Rubble as Death Toll Passes 200
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Mexicans Dig Through Quake Rubble as Death Toll Passes 200
Mexico City told that To hear anything, whatever it is, because the wait is killing me.
20, 2017
MEXICO CITY — Mexicans, fighting fatigue and ebbing hope, hurried Wednesday to dig out survivors still trapped in dozens of collapsed buildings a day after a powerful earthquake rattled the capital
and killed at least 230 people, including 30 schoolchildren.
The rescue will continue like this, practically by hand, and we won’t use heavy machinery until we are 100 percent sure." The city government reported Wednesday
that more than 50 people had been rescued from buildings across the city.
But outside the crumpled buildings, the urgency was palpable as rescue workers clawed at rubble to remove it piece by piece
and volunteers passed buckets of debris along long lines to waiting dump trucks.
" Civil protection officials at the scene said that at least 25 people had been rescued from the destroyed building
and five bodies had been recovered. that Nobody has told us anything yet.
Karen said that We will continue to work to try and rescue everybody who lives in the building,
Mexico City told that To hear anything, whatever it is, because the wait is killing me.
20, 2017
MEXICO CITY — Mexicans, fighting fatigue and ebbing hope, hurried Wednesday to dig out survivors still trapped in dozens of collapsed buildings a day after a powerful earthquake rattled the capital
and killed at least 230 people, including 30 schoolchildren.
The rescue will continue like this, practically by hand, and we won’t use heavy machinery until we are 100 percent sure." The city government reported Wednesday
that more than 50 people had been rescued from buildings across the city.
But outside the crumpled buildings, the urgency was palpable as rescue workers clawed at rubble to remove it piece by piece
and volunteers passed buckets of debris along long lines to waiting dump trucks.
" Civil protection officials at the scene said that at least 25 people had been rescued from the destroyed building
and five bodies had been recovered. that Nobody has told us anything yet.
Karen said that We will continue to work to try and rescue everybody who lives in the building,