The World - News from Oct. 9, 1985
Salvage workers who had hoped to rescue a 9-year-old boy buried under the rubble of an apartment building felled in the Mexico City’s Sept. 19-20 earthquakes found the body of the child’s grandfather, Luis Maldonado Perez, 57. Rescuers said he probably died in a fire caused by the first earthquake. They were still searching for the child, Luis Ramon Nafarrate, but there was no longer believed to be any hope of finding him alive.
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