A boulder that plunged from a mountainside rests among homes successful Tlalnepantla, connected the outskirts of Mexico City, erstwhile a upland gave mode connected Friday, Sept. 10, 2021. A conception of upland connected the outskirts of Mexico City gave mode Friday, plunging rocks the size of tiny homes onto a densely populated vicinity and leaving astatine slightest 1 idiosyncratic dormant and 10 others missing. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

TLALNEPANTLA – Fears of caller landslides slowed the hunt Saturday for much victims from the illness of a hillside that brought tons of boulders down connected a vicinity extracurricular Mexico City, sidesplitting astatine slightest 1 person.

Authorities successful Tlalnepantla, the municipality successful Mexico authorities wherever the catastrophe took spot Friday, reduced the fig of missing radical from 10 to 3 Saturday aft 7 of the missing were located, said Ricardo de la Cruz, undersecretary wide of Mexico state.

A time aft the collapse, equipped forces dogs continued to hunt the rubble for victims but officials focused their efforts connected evacuating astatine slightest 80 homes successful the country and stabilizing the onshore to let dense machinery onto the scene.

“You tin inactive spot cracks” successful the hillside, De la Cruz said. “Our engineers people and bash laser measurements and determination has been further question connected the slope.”

Experts estimation that the largest boulder acceptable escaped by the illness connected Chiquihuite elevation could measurement astir 200 tons and is embedded successful 1 of the houses, De la Cruz said.

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Besides the size of the boulders and fears of much landslides, the hunt is besides being slowed by the neighborhood's narrow, steep paths which are mostly inaccessible to dense machinery.

Friday's landslide successful Tlalnepantla followed days of dense rainfall successful cardinal Mexico and a 7.0-magnitude earthquake Tuesday successful Acapulco that swayed buildings 200 miles distant successful the capital. Mexico authorities Gov. Alfredo del Mazo said Friday nighttime that some factors apt contributed to the slide.

On Friday afternoon, rescuers had carried a assemblage connected a stretcher covered with a expanse past AP journalists.

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