Leveled Mexican City Digs for Survivors. ‘Can You Tell Me if My Dad’s O.K.?’
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Leveled Mexican City Digs for Survivors. ‘Can You Tell Me if My Dad’s O.K.?’
"Little by little." Late into the night, the team of rescuers — marines, federal police officers
and disaster specialists — kept digging, their dark jumpsuits stained gray with pulverized concrete.
Scherezada Gómez said that This becomes part of our history,
Hundreds of residents had gathered over the course of the morning to watch the rescue operation, though Mr. Jiménez’s
two youngest sons, including Wilhem, had stayed home with their mother after spending Friday at the search site.
that Indeed, the strength of this earthquake was devastating, but we are also certain
that the strength of unity, the strength of solidarity and the strength of shared responsibility will be greater,
At times one of them would disappear into a hole in the pile — first his head, then his body — emerging a short time later with nothing new to report.
As rescuers pulled Mr. Jiménez’s body from the rubble, three of his relatives collapsed to the ground, sobbing in anguish,
and his eldest son, Victor Manuel, 14, rushed the police cordon but was restrained.
The supervisor of the national police unit involved in the search, Israel Ponce, put the cap on the head of the youngest of the sons, Wilhem, 12.
9, 2017
JUCHITÁN DE ZARAGOZA, Mexico — Under the glare of portable floodlights and the flashlights
that some held, men in sweat-soaked jumpsuits dug into a hillock of rubble in this city, the night after the largest earthquake to hit Mexico in a century flattened buildings here and across southern Mexico.
"Little by little." Late into the night, the team of rescuers — marines, federal police officers
and disaster specialists — kept digging, their dark jumpsuits stained gray with pulverized concrete.
Scherezada Gómez said that This becomes part of our history,
Hundreds of residents had gathered over the course of the morning to watch the rescue operation, though Mr. Jiménez’s
two youngest sons, including Wilhem, had stayed home with their mother after spending Friday at the search site.
that Indeed, the strength of this earthquake was devastating, but we are also certain
that the strength of unity, the strength of solidarity and the strength of shared responsibility will be greater,
At times one of them would disappear into a hole in the pile — first his head, then his body — emerging a short time later with nothing new to report.
As rescuers pulled Mr. Jiménez’s body from the rubble, three of his relatives collapsed to the ground, sobbing in anguish,
and his eldest son, Victor Manuel, 14, rushed the police cordon but was restrained.
The supervisor of the national police unit involved in the search, Israel Ponce, put the cap on the head of the youngest of the sons, Wilhem, 12.
9, 2017
JUCHITÁN DE ZARAGOZA, Mexico — Under the glare of portable floodlights and the flashlights
that some held, men in sweat-soaked jumpsuits dug into a hillock of rubble in this city, the night after the largest earthquake to hit Mexico in a century flattened buildings here and across southern Mexico.