Last known body recovered from rubble after Mexico quake

Author: Associated Press
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A memorial for victims of last weeks 7.1 earthquake stands in the Condesa neighborhood, where some buildings collapsed, in Mexico City, Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2017. Across Mexico City, some 40 buildings collapsed in the earthquake and hundreds of others were so severely damaged they will either have to be demolished or receive major structural reinforcement. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

MEXICO CITY (AP) The last body known to be trapped in rubble following Mexico’s magnitude 7.1 earthquake has been recovered, officials said Wednesday, and they raised the overall death toll from the quake to 369.

The body was recovered from a collapsed office building in central Mexico City where a steadily dwindling number of families kept vigil for two weeks as an international assortment of rescuers worked a massive rubble heap. It was the last known active recovery site.

Roberto Campa, the Interior Department’s deputy secretary for human rights, said via Twitter that 49 bodies were recovered from the site. They include 19 women and 30 men.

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Mexico City Mayor Miguel Angel Mancera said in an interview with Milenio television that the office building, which counted an employment agency and accounting firm among its tenants, was the last place in the city where bodies were being recovered.

“We do not have any missing person,” he said. Mancera added that all bodies had been identified.

The national Civil Defense chief, Luis Felipe Puente, tweeted that the official federal death toll had risen to 369. Of those, 228 were in the capital.

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