Mexican President, Enrique Nieto, on Wednesday declared three days of national mourning in the wake of a 7.1-magnitude earthquake that killed over 200 people.
Nieto made the announcement on Twitter, saying the days of mourning were in honour of the victims.
“Mexico shares in your grief,” the President said.
In an earlier statement, he urged the people of Mexico to remain united in the face of the challenge.
“This earthquake is a hard and very painful test for our country, but we Mexicans have learned to respond with commitment and a spirit of solidarity,” he said.
The magnitude 7.1 quake, which killed at least 94 people in the capital alone, struck 32 years to the day after a 1985 earthquake killed thousands.
Mexico is also still reeling from a powerful tremor that killed nearly 100 people in the south of the country about two weeks ago.
As rescue efforts continued at a school, a facility for children aged three to 14, emergency crews, volunteers and bystanders toiled elsewhere using dogs, cameras and heat-seeking equipment to detect survivors.
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