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Dramatic rescue work in Mexico quake aftermath

A 7.1 magnitude earthquake hit Mexico on Tuesday, collapsing buildings and leaving many dead or injured. The quake has killed at least 225 people, nearly half of them in Mexico City, 32 years to the day after a devastating 1985 quake.

Death toll climbs as rubble searched for survivors

A magnitude 7.1 earthquakehit Mexico on Tuesdaykillingover200people, nearly half of them in the capital, 32 years to the day after a devastating 1985 quake. Rescuers formed human chains and dugto find dust-covered survivors and bodies in the remains of apartment buildings, schools and a factory.Residents of Mexico City, a metropolitan region of some 20 million people, slept in the streets while authorities and volunteers set up tented collection centres to distribute food and water.

(Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP/Getty Images)

Search under debris

A firefighter looks for survivors beneath a collapsed building. Rescuers are desperately working to free people trapped under debris.

(Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP/Getty Images)

Combing through rubble

Rescue workers searchfor peopleunder the rubble of a collapsed building after an earthquake hit Mexico City. Emergency personnel and equipment arebeing deployed across affected areas.

(Carlos Jasso/Reuters)

Ears to the ground

Rescuers ask for silence tohearpeople trapped beneath the rubbleand debris of a flattened building in Mexico City.

(Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP/Getty Images)

Strong emotion

A woman cries as she tries to reach people on her cellphone after the earthquake. Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto has said the priority is to "keep rescuing people who are still trapped and to give medical attention to the injured people."

(Marco Ugarte/Associated Press)

Human chain

People work together to remove debris outside a collapsed building after the earthquake in Mexico City. The quake toppled dozens of buildings, broke gas mains and sparked fires across the city and other towns in central Mexico.

(Henry Romero/Reuters)

Attending to the injured

An injured man is carried away by rescuers in Mexico City.People across central Mexico are rallyingto help their neighbours as dozens of buildings tumbled into mounds of rubble.

(Pedro Pardo/AFP/Getty Images)

Camped in the street

This family set up shelter in the middle of a street next to homes damaged by the earthquakein Jojutla, Morelos state.In Mexico City, 91kilometres away from Jojutla, residents slept in the streets while authorities and volunteers set up tented collectioncentresto distribute food and water.

(Eduardo Verdugo/Associated Press)

Outdoor nursery

Nurses moved small children in cribs to a safer location when theearthquake hit Mexico City.

(Carlos Jasso/Reuters)

Deadly school collapse

Rescue workers search forchildren trappedinside the collapsed Enrique Rebsamen school in Mexico City. Amid the rubble of theschool, soldiers and firefighters found at least 22 dead children and two adults, while another 30 children and 12 adults were missing.

(Carlos Cisneros/Associated Press)

With files from Reuters