The latest

•A total of 273 people have died in the 7.1 magnitude earthquake, which struck Mexico on Tuesday. Officials said
1,900 people had been injured, while thousands have lost their homes. Hopes that more survivors would be found
were fading on Thursday.
•Parts of Mexico City have been devastated, but the states of Morelos and Puebla were particularly badly hit. The
death toll stood at 73 in Morelos, while authorities in Puebla declared a state of “extraordinary emergency” in 112
municipalities – equivalent to 51% of the region.
Rescuers are racing against the clock to reach survivors trapped under the rubble of a school in Mexico City which
collapsed during Tuesday's earthquake.
Rescue teams initially reported that a 12-year-old child may be sheltering under a table, but now they say they
believe it is an adult.
Officials say 11 children were rescued, but 19 children and six adults died.
It was one of dozens of buildings toppled by the quake. At least 230 people are known to have died.

Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto has declared three days of mourning for the victims.

As rescue operations continued for a second day, attention was focused on the Enrique Rébsamen primary school,
in Mexico City's southern Coapa district, where the body of a female teacher was found overnight.

Assistant Navy Secretary Angel Enrique Sarmiento said on Thursday that rescue teams now believed an adult person
- probably a school employee - may be still alive under the rubble.

He added that all the school pupils had now been accounted for - either alive or dead.

Earlier in the day, civil protection volunteer Enrique Gardia announced that a thermal scanner had detected survivors
trapped between slabs of concrete. "They are alive! Alive!" he shouted.
The death toll from Mexico's powerful earthquake has risen to 273, officials say, as rescuers race against the clock
to reach trapped survivors.

President Enrique Peña Nieto said that rescuing and attending to those injured by Tuesday's 7.1 magnitude quake
would remain "the highest priority".

The quake toppled dozens of buildings and left millions without electricity.

Rescuers believe that people may still be trapped alive in as many as 10 buildings in Mexico City alone.

The new death toll was announced by Mexico's emergency services chief and the president's office.
A HIGH-RANKING navy official said there is no missing child at a collapsed Mexico City school that had become a
focus of rescue efforts following this week’s deadly magnitude 7.1 earthquake, though an adult still may be alive in
the rubble.

Navy Assistant Secretary Angel Enrique Sarmiento said that while there are blood traces and other signs suggesting
that someone is alive, all the school’s children have been accounted for.

“We have done an accounting with school officials and we are certain that all the children either died, unfortunately,
are in hospitals or are safe at their homes,” Sarmiento said.

Authorities have confirmed 25 dead — 19 children and six adults — at the school, and they know that 11 other
students were treated at nearby hospitals.

The attention of many in Mexico and abroad had been drawn to the plight of a girl identified only as Frida Sofia, who
was said to have been located alive under the pancaked school building and became a symbol for the hopes of
thousands of rescuers working around the clock in search of quake survivors.