Crews Search For Victims In Quake Rubble

Weary rescuers searched a hotel’s rubble for missing tourists, looters picked over broken homes and hundreds of families camped out on a soccer field waiting for help Wednesday, two days after an earthquake hit Mexico’s Pacific coast.

The 7.6-magnitude quake shook a 250-mile-long stretch along the coast, killing at least 55 people and injuring more than 90 in the states of Colima and Jalisco, home to some of Mexico’s most popular beaches.

Amid the drone of cranes and the ocean’s roar, weary workers gently unearthed four bodies early Wednesday from the collapsed eight-story Costa Real Hotel, where more than 20 people died.

Police and hotel workers said earlier that about 20 guests were missing, but no precise figure was available because the hotel’s records were demolished.

Officials were still revising death tolls Wednesday as police tried to identify bodies.

Two aftershocks, one of dozens since the Monday quake, shook the ground early Wednesday.