MEXICO CITY, 09 Sept. - (ANA) - More than 5,000 homes were completely destroyed. The city’s 19th-century city hall, with its 30 arches, buckled. The hospital collapsed, forcing staff members to rush patients to a makeshift emergency room in a vacant lot and work by the light of their cellphones.

 

 

By the time the earthquake’s tremors finally faded, at least 45 people were dead in the state of Oaxaca, including 36 in the city of Juchitán de Zaragoza alone.

 

 

“It’s a truly critical situation,” Óscar Cruz López, the city’s municipal secretary, said Friday. “The city,” he said, and then paused. “It’s as if it had been bombed.”

 

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