MEXICO CITY, Sept 20 - Police, firefighters and ordinary Mexicans dug frantically through the rubble of collapsed schools, homes and apartment buildings today, looking for survivors of Mexico�s deadliest earthquake in decades as the number of confirmed fatalities stood at 225.
Adding poignancy and a touch of the surreal, yesterday�s magnitude-7.1 quake struck on the 32nd anniversary of the 1985 earthquake that killed thousands. Just hours earlier, people around Mexico had held earthquake drills to mark the date.
One of the most desperate rescue efforts was at a primary and secondary school in southern Mexico City, where a wing of the three-story building collapsed into a massive pancake of concrete slabs. Journalists saw rescuers pull at least two small bodies from the rubble, covered in sheets.
Volunteer rescue worker Dr. Pedro Serrano managed to crawl into the crevices of the tottering pile of rubble that had been Escuela Enrique Rebsamen. He made it into a classroom, but found all of its occupants dead. � PTI
