Mexico records large scale earthquake, five dead including two children
Fri Sep 08, 2017 10:29:am World
4.5K By Abdulkerimu Oare
- Mexico records large scale earthquake.
- At least five people dead, including two children.
- Children died as a result of loss of electricity in ventilator and a collapsed wall.
Mexico's southern coast recorded a large scale earthquake on Thursday and has so far claimed the lives of at least five people.
The US Geological Survey reported the earthquake's magnitude as 8.1, but President Enrique Pena Nieto said on Friday it was 8.2, making it the largest in Mexico in 100 years. He also said it was bigger than the one in 1985, when thousands were killed in four Mexican states.
At least 5 people have died including two children in Tabasco state alone.
Tabasco Governor Arturo Nunez said that one of the children died when a wall collapsed, and the other was a baby who died in a children's hospital that lost electricity, cutting off the supply to the infant's ventilator.
"There is damage to hospitals that have lost energy," he said.
"Homes, schools and hospitals have been damaged."
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