Mexicans turn to church as earthquake death toll hits 320


  • World
  • Saturday, 23 Sep 2017

Members of a Japanese rescue team hold a dog found underneath the rubble of a collapsed multi family residential, after an earthquake, in Mexico City, Mexico September 24, 2017. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexicans packed churches on Sunday to pray for the victims of the country's deadliest quake in 32 years as rescue teams searched against the odds for any survivors trapped under rubble since Tuesday's tremor shook Mexico City and nearby states.

As another aftershock jolted southwestern Mexico on Sunday, the death toll from Tuesday's 7.1 magnitude earthquake climbed to 320 people. With thousands of buildings damaged, survivors slept on the street outside their homes and estimates of the cost of the earthquake ran as high as $8 billion.

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