Death toll is expected to rise after a 7.1 magnitude earthquake strikes 120km from Mexico City, collapsing buildings and killing at least 217 peopleIf you´ve been affected you can share your story here 8.41am BST The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office has released updated advice for people planning to travel to Mexico today:On Tuesday 19 September 2017 there was an earthquake of magnitude 7.1 near Puebla, Mexico - approximately 140km south-east of Mexico City. Damage has been severe. Mexico City airport was closed temporarily, but has now reopened. Please contact your airline in the first instance if you are due to fly out on 19 or 20 September. Local authorities are opening up shelters for those most badly affected, details will be released by Proteccion Civil. If you are in the area, you should follow the advice of the local authorities. The British embassy in Mexico City remains closed and phone lines are intermittent due to structural damage. If you require emergency assistance, please call +44 (0)20 7008 1500. 8.25am BST Puente has released an update to the death toll - increasing by one. The figure now stands at 217, he says; another person having died in the south-western state of Guerrero. 8.20am BST Desperate parents and rescue workers have been pulling through rubble in a floodlit search for dozens of young children feared buried under a Mexico City school destroyed by the country´s most lethal earthquake in a generation. On Twitter, the head of the country´s civil protection agency has called for people to mobilise at 8am local time (2pm UK time) to help those communities hit by the earthquake..@CruzRoja_MX solicita que los apoyos de ayuda a la población se reactiven a las 8 am, exhortamos a la población a continuar en la mañana. pic.twitter.com/lKy09ve1zE 8.12am BST The Mexican public education secretary, Aurelio Nuño, said four of the dead were in the Mexico City campus of the Tecnológico de Monterrey university. He added that 40 people were al ...
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