World para swimming, powerlifting events postponed after quake - IPC


  • Swimming
  • Wednesday, 20 Sep 2017

Rescue personnel stand on top of the rubble of a collapsed building while searching for people after an earthquake hit Mexico City, Mexico September 19, 2017. REUTERS/Claudia Daut

(Reuters) - The world para swimming and powerlifting championships to be held in Mexico City later this month have been postponed following the devastating earthquake this week, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) said on Wednesday.

Tuesday's magnitude 7.1 shock killed at least 226 people, nearly half of them in the capital and among them at least 22 school children, less than two weeks after a powerful tremor killed nearly 100 people in the south of the country.

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