Rescuers toil to find survivors in the rubble a day after a devastating earthquake in central Mexico killed more than 200 people. esperate rescue workers scrabbled through rubble in a floodlit search on Wednesday for dozens of children feared buried beneath a Mexico City school, one of hundreds of buildings wrecked by the country's most lethal earthquake in a generation.
The magnitude 7.1 shock killed at least 225 people, nearly half of them in the capital, 32 years to the day after a devastating 1985 quake. The head of Mexico's national civil defense agency, Luis Felipe Puente, posted a tweet saying 94 are known dead in Mexico City, 71 in Morelos state, 43 in Puebla, 12 in the State of Mexico, four in Guerrero and one in Oaxaca.
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