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Mexico’s most powerful earthquake in century kills at least 60, more than 200 injured
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- September 09, 2017
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Mexico’s most powerful earthquake in a century killed at least 60 people, officials said on Friday, after it struck the Pacific coast, wrecking buildings and sending families fleeing into the streets.
Rescue workers rushed to the worst scenes of destruction, in the southern states of Oaxaca and Chiapas, where officials warned there may be people trapped in the ruins.
President Enrique Pena Nieto described the 8.2 magnitude quake as “the largest registered in our country in at least the past 100 years” — stronger even than a devastating 1985 earthquake that killed more than 10,000 people in Mexico City.
Twenty-five people were killed in Oaxaca alone, Mexico’s agriculture secretary Jose Calzada said.
The worst destruction appeared to be in Juchitan, Oaxaca, where 17 people were pulled from the rubble.
Officials said the death toll there could rise. “There are houses that collapsed with people inside”, Luis Felipe Puente, director general of the emergency response agency, told TV news channel Milenio.
A hotel also collapsed in Juchitan, the town hall partly caved in, and many homes were badly damaged.
