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Scores dead after powerful quake jolts Mexico

People remove some of the debris of an earthquake-collapsed building in the Mexico City neighborhood of Condesa on Tuesday in a desperate search for trapped survivors. Casualty figures from various affected regions of the country indicated at least 119 killed. Foto: Alejandro Cegarra
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The Washington Post · Joshua Partlow

MEXICO CITY - A 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck central Mexico on Tuesday, collapsing buildings and killing scores of people on the anniversary of a 1985 quake that devastated Mexico City.

Coming less than two weeks after a deadly temblor off the country’s Pacific coast, and just hours after a siren signaled an annual earthquake drill in the capital,…

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