Hopes for Mexico Quake Survivors Dim as Search Enters Sixth Day

Hopes for Mexico Quake Survivors Dim as Search Enters Sixth Day
Members of rescue teams continue to search for people under the rubble of a collapsed building, after an earthquake, in Mexico City, Mexico September 23, 2017. Reuters/Jose Luis Gonzalez
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MEXICO CITY—Emergency workers searched by floodlight in smashed buildings for survivors of Mexico’s deadliest earthquake in 32 years amid fading rescue prospects, five nights after the disaster and as President Enrique Pena Nieto urged Mexicans to turn their attention to rebuilding.

The search continued in a ruined office building in Mexico City’s hip Roma neighborhood and a five-story apartment in historic Tlalpan after Tuesday’s 7.1 quake toppled dozens of buildings and killed over 300 people.