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Mexico church roof collapses during mass, killing at least 10 and injuring 60
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The roof of a church has collapsed in northern Mexico during a Sunday mass, killing at least 10 people and injuring about 60, authorities said as searchers probed the wreckage late into the night looking for survivors and other victims.
“From underneath the rubble, thanks to divine providence and the work of the rescue teams, people have been pulled out alive!” Alvarez’s diocese wrote in a statement posted on it social media accounts.
Photos published by local media showed what appeared to be a concrete and brick structure, with parts of the roof fallen almost to the ground.
Video distributed by the state civil defence office showed the outer edges of the roof propped up by short wooden blocks.
But the office said the efforts to lift roof sections were abandoned because of the danger that a chunk of the now-crumbling slab might fall back and endanger any survivors.
The video described how officials had reverted to manual rescue efforts, apparently sending rescuers under the slab with wood props or hydraulic jacks to reach those trapped underneath.
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