MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The search for victims of an earthquake that
killed hundreds in Mexico City ended on Wednesday as rescue workers recovered
the body of the last person known to be missing beneath the rubble of collapsed
buildings.
Deputy Interior Minister Roberto Campa said all the bodies had been
recovered from the ruins of an office building in the upscale Roma district of
the capital. The search at other buildings that collapsed ended several days
ago.
In total 369 people died in the Sept. 19 earthquake, the most deadly in
a generation, with almost two-thirds of the fatalities in the capital. Earlier
that month, 98 people died when an even more powerful tremor hit the south of
the country.
(Reporting by Miguel Angel Gutierrez; Editing by
Jeffrey Benkoe)
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