JUCHITÁN DE ZARAGOZA, Mexico — Under the glare of portable floodlights and the flashlights that some held, men in sweat-soaked jumpsuits dug into a hillock of rubble in this city, the night after the largest earthquake to hit Mexico in a century flattened buildings here and across southern Mexico. Atop the mound of debris, the men at times moved like archaeologists, sifting with bare, dirt-encrusted hands, chunk by concrete chunk. At other times, they powered up an excavator, which, with its own brutish precision, moved the workers closer to their goal. There was a man under there — perhaps alive, perhaps dead. Throughout Friday, victims were pulled from the ruins of homes, shops and offices in Juchitán de Zaragoza, a city of 100,000 in Oaxaca State: at least 36 dead, more than 300 injured.

Source: New York Times September 09, 2017 15:39 UTC