Central Mexico Earthquake kills Scores.
Another Earthquake storms Mexico on Tuesday barely one week after the previous occured.
CNN reports that at least 216 people died and many trapped under collapsed buildings in Mexico City -- the country's capital -- and in the states of Puebla, Mexico and Morelos, officials said. Previously, authorities had said that as many as 248 people had died. The death toll was later revised.
President Enrique Peña Nieto said 22 bodies were found in the debris of an elementary school in Mexico City that collapsed due to the earthquake. At least 30 children were still missing Tuesday night, he said.
"We are facing a new national emergency," Peña Nieto told citizens earlier on his first address following the earthquake.
Tuesday's earthquake came more than one week after a magnitude-8.1 earthquake struck off the southern coast of the country, killing at least 90, according to the governor of the hard-hit state of Oaxaca.
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