At least 55 dead in central Mexico after powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake
(The Star Golf)

MEXICO CITY—A magnitude 7.1 earthquake rocked central Mexico on Tuesday, killing at least 55 people as buildings collapsed in plumes of dust and thousands fled into the streets in panic.The quake came less than two weeks after another quake left 90 dead in the country’s south, and it occurred as Mexicans commemorated the anniversary of a 1985 quake that killed thousands.Mexican media broadcast images of multiple downed buildings in densely populated parts of Mexico City and nearby Cuernavaca. A column of smoke rose from a structure in one central neighbourhood in the capital.Read more: Mexico mourns 66 dead after twin punch of earthquake, hurricaneMorelos Gov. Graco Ramirez reported on Twitter that at least 42 people had died in his state south of Mexico City.Gov. Alfredo del Mazo told the Televisa news network that two people died in the State of Mexico, which also borders the capital: a quarry worker who was killed when the quake unleashed a rock slide and another person who was hit by a falling lamppost.Rescue workers rushed to the site of damaged or collapsed buildings in the capital, and reporters saw onlookers cheer as a woman was pulled from the rubble.Rescuers immediately called for silence so that they could listen for others who might be trapped.Gala Dluzhynska said she was taking a class with 11 other women on the second floor of a building on the trendy Alvaro Obregon street when the quake struck and window and ceiling panels fell as the building began to tear apart.She said she fell in the stairs and people began to walk over her, before someone finally pulled her up.“There were no stairs anymore. There were rocks,” she said.They reached the bottom only to find it barred. A security final came and unlocked it.The quake caused buildings to sway sickeningly in Mexico City and sent people throughout the city fleeing from homes and offices, and many people remained in the streets for hours, fearful of returning to the structu ...