Mexicans respond with faith and charity as hope fades for quake survivors


  • World
  • Friday, 22 Sep 2017

Women react during a search for students at the Enrique Rebsamen school after an earthquake in Mexico City, Mexico September 21, 2017. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Tears flowed at Our Lady of Carmen and Saint Joseph Parrish on Thursday night as the families of two dead children killed when a powerful earthquake toppled their school a few blocks away interred their ashes

The crushed victims, 7-year-old Eduardo Diaz and 8-year-old Francisco Quintero, were two of the 286 people reported killed by the quake, Mexico's deadliest in 32 years.

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