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Outgoing president Enrique Pena Nieto casts his ballot in Mexico's general elections. 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.
Residents of Mexico City described their ordeals the morning after a deadly earthquake on Wednesday killed over 200 people and destroyed several dozen buildings. One survivor described how she was unable to escape her apartment and could only look on in horror as the quake shook the building. A different resident was able to leave her apartment, but feared for her life in doing so.
A 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck central Mexico, destroying several buildings in the country's capital of Mexico City and leaving over 240 people dead on Tuesday. Emergency services carried out rescue operations as they searched for survivors trapped in the surrounding buildings. Tuesday's earthquake comes just a matter of weeks after an 8.1 magnitude quake also struck central Mexico and killed nearly 100 people, mainly in the city of Oaxaca.
Devastation and ruin lay over the Mexican capital after a 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck central Mexico, toppling dozens of buildings and leaving millions without power on Tuesday. Hundreds of regular citizens joined emergency services and members of the military in searching for survivors still trapped under the debris of collapsed buildings.
Singapore's ruling People's Action Party is to face opposition in all 89 parliamentary seats for the first time since independence. Yiming Woo reports.
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