(Marco Ugarte/Associated Press)MEXICO CITY — President Enrique Pena Nieto said Wednesday that preliminary accounting of the damage caused by the two big earthquakes that hit Mexico this month could cost upward of $2 billion (38.1 billion pesos). Pena Nieto stressed that damage assessments were continuing, especially in hard-hit Mexico City. But preliminary estimates put repairing and rebuilding schools in several states and the capital at nearly $750 million (13.6 billion pesos). National Civil Defense chief Luis Felipe Puente reported on Twitter that the dead included 199 in Mexico City. He said there were also 74 in Morelos state, 45 in Puebla state, 13 in the State of Mexico, six in Guerrero state and one in Oaxaca state.

Source: Washington Post September 28, 2017 00:11 UTC