Below tragedy The incident occurred in a housing complex located on a hill in the city of Jiutepec. A rescue team from the Civil Defense and the Mexican Red Cross has been working at the site since Saturday morning, the newspaper “El Sol de Mexico” reported.
Death of three girls
Rescue teams pulled them out of the rubble the bodies of three girls – Aide, Danny and Nataly – aged two, five and seven. A 22-year-old woman, the mother of at least one of those girls, was rescued but is injured, according to media reports.
The collapsed structure had no foundations. It consisted of a brick wall and a roof made of cardboard and sheet metal, covered with a plastic tarpaulin, explained the newspaper El Universal.
Evacuation call
According to “El Sol de Mexico”, soldiers and officers of the National Guard are currently conducting a census of local residents and urging them to evacuate because Equally heavy rains are forecast for the next 48 hours.
