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Foreigners killed in Mexico quake from Taiwan, Korea, Spain

Published: 23 Sep 2017 - 08:06 am | Last Updated: 07 Nov 2021 - 07:59 am
Rescue workers continue to search for survivors as night falls, in a collapsed building in Mexico City on September 22, 2017, three days after the powerful quake that hit central Mexico, causing panic among the megalopolis' 20 million inhabitants on the 3

Rescue workers continue to search for survivors as night falls, in a collapsed building in Mexico City on September 22, 2017, three days after the powerful quake that hit central Mexico, causing panic among the megalopolis' 20 million inhabitants on the 3

AFP

Mexico City: The bodies of eight foreigners have been recovered from the rubble of the quake that struck Mexico City, officials said Friday.

The remains were those of four Taiwanese women, a Korean man, a Spanish man, a Panamanian woman and an Argentine man, Mexico's high court said in a statement citing information from the forensic institute.