Mexico commits to three more days of search and rescue after quake
Rescuers are not likely to find anyone alive after last week’s 7.1 magnitude earthquake
Mexico City — Mexico will search another three days beneath the rubble for possible survivors of the September 19 earthquake even though it is unlikely rescuers will find anyone alive, the country’s chief of emergency services said on Monday. "I can say that at this time it would be unlikely to find someone alive," Luis Felipe Puente, co-ordinator of Mexico’s civil protection department, said, referring to 43 missing people being sought at four disaster sites in Mexico City. Puente also told Reuters that the government had instructed prosecutors to investigate newly constructed buildings that collapsed in the quake for code violations, including a school where 19 children and seven adults died. Mexico City’s mayor, the education minister and the top official for the district all traded blame after reports that the Enrique Rebsamen primary school operated using false documents. Officials who approved the school building, the construction company and the owner of the property all coul...
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