The Secretary of Social Development of the city encouraged on twitter to continue the hard task of looking for survivors: "Let's not lower our arms." It is a fight against the clock, warned President Enrique Peña Nieto in a message on the social network in which he said that "every minute counts to save lives", through his account also announced that he would visit Puebla to evaluate the damages caused by the a total of 52 people have been rescued alive since the earthquake, according to the Secretariat, while it complicated the rescue of a girl trapped under the rubble of a school.

Peña Nieto said that the probability of survival was decreasing as hours went by, but rescue efforts led by the Navy continued, such as a collapsed school in the south of the capital where a 12-year-old girl had been located and possibly others of his companions alive. Eleven other children were rescued from the middle and elementary school Enrique Rébsamen, where 21 students and four adults died.

The Secretary of the Interior, Miguel Angel Osorio Chong, explained that a special group is helping in Mexico City, in total 10 thousand between elements of the Army, Navy, Federal Police and other federal officials, but the solidarity of the people has not stopped and has turned to the streets, both to provide help, and to take food, medicines and other support utensils.

President Enrique Peña Nieto said that half a hundred people have been rescued. "More than 50 people have been rescued alive from the debris of collapsed buildings in Mexico City. Relief teams are working to locate and rescue people who are reported to have been lost as far as Puebla and the City of Only in Mexico City, more than 900 people have received medical attention in health facilities, most of them have already been discharged”.

Meanwhile, 238 people were killed in the earthquake that struck central and southern Mexico on Tuesday, according to the latest official casualty report. Miguel Ángel Mancera, head of the Government of Mexico City, told a press conference that in Mexico City the number of deceased has increased to 108 in the last hours. In the capital, at least 40 buildings have collapsed and more collapses are feared.

The dead in the capital of the country are 69 in Morelos, 43 in Puebla, 13 in the state of Mexico, four in Guerrero and one in Oaxaca. In Puebla, 11 people died during a baptism in a church. According to the latest balance of the state, there are 43 dead, 105 injured, 18 missing and affected in 33 municipalities.

The authorities have not closed the balance, as they are still looking for potential victims among the rubble and there is no certainty that some data are not duplicated. In the last few hours the death count has been revised downwards. The National Seismological Service of Mexico has registered 11 aftershocks after the earthquake, which occurred just over a week after another of magnitude 8.2 that left more than one hundred dead in the states of Oaxaca, Chiapas and Tabasco.