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Members of a Qatari rescue team search for survivors in the devastated village of Azgour. Hopes are dimming in Morocco's search for survivors, four days after a powerful earthquake killed more than 2,900 people, most of them in remote villages of the High Atlas Mountains. IMAGES
Rescue teams and volunteers continued to comb through the rubble of a collapsed school in Mexico City in search of trapped survivors, in the aftermath of a magnitude 7.1 earthquake, on Wednesday. Reports have provided conflicting information, with sources stating that up to 26 bodies have been found, 21 of which were children, and that 11 people have been rescued. The disaster has so far claimed the lives of at least 237 people, with the death toll expected to rise, while some 52 people had been pulled alive from collapsed buildings.
Rescue workers in Mexico City continue the painstaking effort of clawing through rubble for survivors in a collapsed elementary and middle school after a 7.1-magnitude earthquake killed at least 233 people. IMAGES
Members of a rescue team search for survivors in a damaged building in Hualien. At least seven people were killed and more than 700 injured Wednesday by a powerful earthquake in Taiwan that damaged dozens of buildings and prompted tsunami warnings that extended to Japan and the Philippines before being lifted. IMAGES
Rescue workers continue to scour the rubble for survivors in the Imi N'Tala village, five days after a powerful earthquake killed more than 2,900 people, most of them in remote villages of the High Atlas Mountains. IMAGES