Mexico Mourns After Quake: ‘We Have No Idea How We Are Going to Rebuild’
10, 2017
ASUNCIÓN IXTALTEPEC, Mexico — The death toll from Mexico’s strongest earthquake in living memory rose to 90 on Sunday, as the people of southern Oaxaca State mourned their dead
and rescue workers began assessing the damage in small towns where dust still hung in the air.
Referring to Mexico’s last giant earthquake, he added, "Let’s just hope this won’t take 30 years, as it did back in 1985." As the terror of Thursday’s earthquake turned into the long ache of families
that may never again feel whole, one funeral on Sunday stood out as an emblem of the city’s loss.
Neighbors converged on the house to help Ms. Pérez free the family,
but Mr. Peralta died a couple of hours later at the town’s clinic, which operated that night with no electricity.
Ms. Pérez had been outside her own home, opposite the two-story house where her son, Eduardo
Peralta, 33, lived with his young family, when the earthquake shook the ground beneath her.
" said María Luisa Matus, a state official coordinating efforts at the shelter, where rice, rice bottled water and toilet paper were stacked in piles.
that We have no idea how we are going to rebuild the entire town,
Like Ms. Perez, the residents of Ixtaltepec, where 10 people died, had to manage on their own for the first day after the earthquake.
"That’s why he died." Paulina Villegas reported from Asunción Ixtaltepec, Mexico, and Elisabeth Malkin from Mexico City.