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Nearly 140
killed in powerful Mexico quake
Nearly 140 people were killed when a
powerful, 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck Mexico on Tuesday, toppling buildings
in the capital and sowing panic on the anniversary of a devastating 1985 quake.
Rescue crews and volunteers in Mexico City --
home to 20 million people -- clawed through the rubble of at least 49 collapsed
buildings looking for survivors and bodies.
Local media reported that families were
getting Whatsapp messages pleading for help from desperate relatives trapped
under the debris.
Mexico City recorded 36 of the deaths, while
Morelos state directly south of it saw 64 killed. The others were registered in
Puebla (29), a town southeast of the capital, and in Mexico state (nine), which
lies just to the west of the capital.
National Coordinator for Civil Protection Luis
Felipe Puente said a total of at least 138 people died.
Memories of the devastating 1985 earthquake
that killed 10,000 people in Mexico City spurred panic on Tuesday. Many quickly
ran for safety outdoors when walls around them swayed and cracked.
"I'm
so worried. I can't stop crying. It's the same nightmare as in 1985," Georgina Sanchez, 52,
sobbed to AFP in a plaza in the capital.
Amamia Sanchez, a 45-year-old secretary cried
out: "It's just not
possible that this happened also on September 19."
The quake -- which occurred in the early
afternoon, hours after city authorities had conducted an earthquake drill --
caused damage in the bustling center of the city, and to areas south and west
of the capital.
"We
ran outside thinking all was going to collapse around us," said Lazaro Frutis, a
45-year-old who escaped an office building before it crumbled to the ground. "The worst thing is, we don't
know about our families or anything."
"It
was horrible,"
said resident Leiza Visaj Herrera, 27. "I didn't want to get close under any tree. I had to hold on to the
ground."
Scenes of chaos permeated the city straight
after the earth shuddered. Traffic jammed to a standstill before blanked-out
stop lights, and anxious people ran between vehicles as ambulances tried to
make headway, sirens squealing.
Emergency officials warned people in the
streets to avoid smoking because of the risk of igniting gas leaking from ruptured
pipes.
In several locations, people were seen
clambering on buildings that were now piles of stone and tangled metal to pull
people out.
Jorge Lopez, a 49-year-old Spaniard living in
Mexico City, said that he raced to the school in the central Roma district
where his children aged six and three were in class, to find it collapsed but
his offspring safe but terrified.
"We arrived at the school and everyone
was crying, everyone was frantic, and the kids were holding on to a rope,"
he said.
"It's uncontrollable. You can't do
anything against nature."
Witnesses said another school was smashed to
rubble in Cuernavaca, a town just south of the capital. The fate of the pupils
and teachers was unknown.
An office building of around five stories in
the chic Condesa district of central Mexico City collapsed. Volunteers
scrambled among the debris, pulling out three survivors and looking for more.
"There are people trapped there!"
yelled one woman.
Similar efforts were made at other smashed
buildings nearby. At one, an emergency worker held up a sign commanding
"Silence" so crews could listen for the sounds of any survivors.
Patients were evacuated from a hospital in the
adjoining Roma district, wheeled out on beds and wheelchairs as staff set up
makeshift wards outside.
President Enrique Pena Neto said on Twitter he
had ordered the evacuation of damaged hospitals "and the transfer of their
patients to other medical facilities."
At one collapsed building in the Roma
district, dozens of people dug through rubble as they waited for the arrival of
heavy machinery to move the massive chunks of stone. Officials called out for
more volunteers, and for water.
A woman standing and watching the efforts with
her husband, a doctor, turned to him and said, "Darling, if you want to
help, give me your glasses and take care."
The city's international airport closed for
more than three hours following the quake, and the stock market was forced to
shut down.
Hours after the quake, residents stood around
outside, in the streets, fearing aftershocks.
Direct Sentence to Indirect Sentence
1.
Direct: "I'm so
worried. I can't stop crying. It's the same nightmare as in 1985,"
Georgina Sanchez, 52.
Indirect: Georgina Sanchez
(52) said that she was so worried, She couldn’t stop crying and that it was the
same nightmare as in 1985.
2.
Direct: Amamia Sanchez, a
45-year-old secretary cried out: "It's just not possible that this
happened also on September 19."
Indirect: Amania Sanchez (45)
told that it was just not possible that it had happened also on September 19.
3.
Direct: "We ran outside
thinking all was going to collapse around us," said Lazaro Frutis, a
45-year-old who escaped an office building before it crumbled to the ground.
"The worst thing is, we don't know about our families or anything."
Indirect: Lazaro Frutis (45)
said that they had run outside thinking all was going to collapse around them,
and that the worst thing was they didn’t know about their families or anything.
4.
Direct: "It was
horrible," said resident Leiza Visaj Herrera, 27. "I didn't want to
get close under any tree. I had to hold on to the ground."
Indirect: Leiza Visaj Herrera
(27) said that it had been horrible, she had not wanted to get close under any
tree and that she had had to hold on to the ground.
