Mexico Earthquake Kills at Least 25 at School; 11 Survivors Freed



The hunt for dozens of missing children at a Mexico City school partially flattened by a powerful earthquake became a race against time on Wednesday as the death toll rose to at least 225.




Firefighters, police officers and volunteers pulled at least 25 bodies, all but four of them children, from the Enrique Rebsamen school in the south of the capital.









Crews wearing hard hats worked their way through pancaked concrete slabs as family members and teachers searched lists of children to see who was accounted for.




Dr. Pedro Serrano, one of the volunteers, told The Associated Press that he managed to crawl into the crevices of the tottering pile of rubble and made it into a classroom, but found all of its occupants dead.




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"We saw some chairs and wooden tables," he said. "The next thing we saw was a leg, and then we started to move rubble and we found a girl and two adults — a woman and a man."




Eleven people were rescued alive from the school, but 30 others were still missing as of 2 a.m. ET, according to Mexico's education minister, Aurelio Nuño Mayer.







Image: Enrique Rebsamen School


Workers and a rescue dog search for children trapped inside the collapsed Enrique Rebsamen school on Tuesday.