Mexican rescuers race against time to free trapped survivors
Mexico City — Rescuers laboured against the odds as dawn broke on Thursday to save a 12-year-old schoolgirl and other possible survivors who were trapped beneath collapsed buildings in central Mexico, following the country’s deadliest earthquake in 32 years. More than 50 survivors have been plucked from several disaster sites in Mexico City since Tuesday afternoon’s magnitude 7.1 quake, leading to impassioned choruses of, “Yes we can!” from the first responders, volunteers and spectators gathered around the ruins. At least 237 others have died and 1,900 were injured. As the chances of survival diminished with each passing hour, officials vowed to continue with search-and-rescue efforts such as the one at a collapsed school in the south of the capital. At the site, Navy-led rescuers have communicated with the 12-year-old girl, but were still unable to dig her free. Another 11 children were rescued from the Enrique Rebsamen school. So far a total of 21 children and four adults had bee...
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