Mayor Says 2 Died in Powerful Mexico Quake EFE
go to original March 23, 2012

Residents of the southern Mexican community of Cochoapa saw their homes reduced to rubble by this week's magnitude-7.8 earthquake. (EFE)

CHILPANCINGO, Mexico - At least two people died in the magnitude-7.4 earthquake that rocked a large swath of southern Mexico earlier this week, a mayor reported.

The deaths occurred in small towns near Ometepec, the municipality closest to the epicenter of Tuesday's quake, located in a remote zone near the border between the states of Guerrero and Oaxaca.

Another 11 people were injured and hundreds of homes were damaged, Mexican authorities said on the same day as the quake, initially reported as magnitude-7.8.

The mayor of the Guerrero municipality of Cuajinicuilapa, Jose Salvador Cruz, reported the two fatalities during a meeting Thursday with Guerrero Gov. Angel Aguirre and federal Social Development Secretary Heriberto Guerra.

He said one of the individuals was killed in a wall collapse in the small town of El Tamale, while the other died of a heart attack in the hamlet of San Nicolas.

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