Foreigners killed in Mexico quake from Taiwan, Korea, Spain

Rescuers look for survivors in a multistory building flattened by a powerful quake in Mexico City on September 19, 2017. /AFP / Ronaldo Schemidt/

MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) — The bodies of eight foreigners have been recovered from the rubble of the quake that struck Mexico City, officials said Friday.

The remains were those of four Taiwanese women, a Korean man, a Spanish man, a Panamanian woman and an Argentine man, Mexico’s high court said in a statement citing information from the forensic institute.