News:Photos: Powerful 7.1 Earthquake Strikes Central Mexico, Killing At Least 216

A powerful 7.1 earthquake rocked central Mexico on Tuesday, collapsing homes and bridges across hundreds of miles, killing at least 149 people and sending thousands more fleeing into the streets screaming in a country still reeling from a deadly temblor that struck less than two weeks ago.
The temblor struck 32 years to the day after another powerful earthquake that killed thousands and devastated large parts of Mexico City — a tragedy that President Peña Nieto had commemorated earlier in the day.
Emergency crews and ordinary people were digging with their bare hards through rubble in search of trapped survivors after a powerful earthquake stuck central Mexico on Tuesday, toppling dozens of buildings and killing at least 216 people.
The magnitude 7.1 quake, the deadliest to hit the nation since 1985, struck shortly after 1pm local time, causing violent, prolonged shaking which flattened buildings and sent masonry tumbling onto streets, crushing cars and people in the capital Mexico City and surrounding areas.
The earthquake also appeared to have triggered an eruption of Mexico’s Popocatépetl volcano. In Atzitzihuacan on the slopes of the volcano, a church collapsed during mass, killing 15 people, Puebla governor Jose Antonio Gali said.
As night fell across the region hit by the quake rescuers armed with cutting equipment and sniffer dogs scrambled to reach survivors pinned inside in ruins of offices and apartment blocks amid plumes of dust and wailing sirens. Power blackouts left much of the capital in darkness. Many people remained outdoors, fearful of aftershocks.

It was the second major temblor to hit Mexico in two weeks and came on the anniversary of the 1985 quake that devastated Mexico City.
“The building swayed like a hammock,” said Guillermo Salazar, a construction foreman whose crew was working on a half-finished apartment block. Everyone escaped unscathed thanks in part to an earthquake drill held two hours earlier, said Salazar. “It was helpful. Everyone knew what to do.”
Elsewhere however there was chaos. Authorities took so long to respond to a collapsed seven-storey building in La Condesa, a wealthy part of Mexico City, that hundreds of people frantically scrambled through the rubble with their hands using shovels and shopping trolleys to remove debris.
The epicentre of the quake was near the Puebla state town of Raboso, about 76 miles (122km) southeast of Mexico City, at a depth of 32 miles (51 km), the US Geological Survey said.
Authorities said at least 54 people died in the state of Morelos, with 30 perishing in Mexico City, 26 in Puebla state and nine in the state of Mexico, which borders the capital.
Public education undersecretary Javier Treviño reported 21 children and four adults had died at the collapsed Enrique Rebsámen school, according to local media. Online news organisation Animal Politico reported at least 28 children were still trapped in the school, according to Mexico City authorities.
President Enrique Peña Nieto visited the site earlier in the evening and was besieged by desperate parents, telling him that their children were missing.
The overall death toll was expected to continue rising as emergency crews and improvised citizen brigades combed through rubble.