Thread: HUNDREDS DEAD, Buildings Collapse After Mexico City Earthquake

'At least 100 children' missing after school building collapses in powerful Mexico earthquake

The 7.1 magnitude quake hit Mexico City on Tuesday afternoon causing widespread carnage

BY STEVE ROBSON LUCY CLARKE-BILLINGS

• 00:47, 20 SEP 2017

NEWS

Around 100 children are reportedly missing after a school building collapsed in a powerful earthquake in Mexico.

Firefighters have been joined by police and dozens of volunteers in a desperate search for survivors among the debris.

Enrique Rebsamen, a four-storey building for primary and secondary school children, was reduced to rubble after the 7.1 magnitude quake tore through the capital Mexico City on Tuesday.

There were reports of two children saved and one body found so far.

Desperate locals took to social media to call for help as well as building equipment to help those trapped.

According to reports, around 400 children attended the school and 100 remain unaccounted for.

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Oh my God.

UPDATE

At least 44 buildings crumbled in Mexico City, officials said, including multistory apartment buildings, which may have had dozens of people inside when the 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck.

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