Memorials spring up at Mexico City’s quake collapse sites

Fri., Sept. 29, 2017

By Moises Castillo Associated Press

MEXICO CITY – Impromptu memorials have sprung up across Mexico City as people come to terms with the magnitude 7.1 earthquake that killed more than 350 people.

They’re on sidewalks, on median strips and amid the brick dust of collapsed buildings.

It’s part of a process of grieving, remembering and paying homage to the victims and to the volunteers and first responders who toiled to rescue survivors and recover bodies.

At one memorial in front of the campus of the Tecnologico de Monterrey on the south side of Mexico City, people have arranged stuffed plush toys of rams – the university’s mascot – in piles under hand-lettered messages to five students who died on Sept. 19.

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