The death toll in Mexico’s earthquake rose to 65 Saturday with three additional deaths reported in the southern state of Chiapas. The state government has now confirmed that 15 people died there in Thursday’s earthquake, which destroyed 1,000 homes in the state and damaged 5,000 others.
In Jucitan, the Oaxacan city hit hardest by the earthquake, emergency crews found the body of a missing police officer Saturday, raising the local death toll to 37 in a city where a third of the homes have been declared uninhabitable by Thursday’s 8.1-magnitude earthquake. A day earlier, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto visited the city, declaring a three-day period of national mourning for those killed by the earthquake.
Earlier Saturday, the governor of Veracruz reported that two people died in a mudslide caused by Tropical Storm Katia, which made landfall in Mexico overnight Friday. The governor, Miguel Angel Yunes, said there were no other reports of damage, but that 2,886 people were evacuated across the state due to the storm.
—Grace Wyler
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