The number of people killed by a powerful earthquake off the
southern coast of Mexico has risen to at least 58, officials say.A huge rescue operation is under way in the worst-hit states of Tabasco, Oaxaca and Chiapas where people are feared trapped under rubble.
President Enrique Peña Nieto says at least 200 people have been injured.
The 8.1-magnitude quake was the strongest to hit the region in a century.
The National Emergency Committee is currently reporting 58 deaths from the September 7 earthquake," the agency's director, Luis Felipe Puente, wrote on Twitter.
Source BBC News.
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