Race to save Mexican young girl trapped under collapsed school

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Rescue workers in Mexico City raced Thursday to dig out a young girl buried alive in the rubble of her school after a magnitude-7.
1 earthquake struck Tuesday afternoon that killed at least 245 people, including 100 deaths in Mexico`s capital.
  The girl`s full name has not been made public.
Mexican press identified her as "Frida Sofia," 12, a pupil at the Enrique Rebsamen School.
The bodies of 21 children and four adults were earlier recovered.
  More: Deadliest earthquakes of the past decade Emergency workers first made contact with the girl Wednesday after her wiggling fingers were spotted in a massive pile of debris, but she is thought to be trapped under a table.
 Education Secretary Aurelio Nuno confirmed a trapped girl was alive, but said it was still not confirmed if other children were also alive under the rubble.
 Nuno said the girl`s identity, or the whereabouts of her parents, was not confirmed.
   However, Enrique Gardia, a volunteer searching for survivors, said Thursday morning that a thermal scanner had detected other survivors trapped between slabs of concrete, according to the BBC.
"They are alive! Alive!" he shouted.
"Someone hit a wall several times in one place, and in another there was a response to light signals with a lamp," he added, according to the British broadcaster.
It reported that one mother who was standing nearby waiting for news of her 7-year-old daughter, said: "No-one can possibly imagine the pain I`m in right now.
" Tuesday`s quake was the most deadly to strike Mexico in three decades and came on the exact anniversary of a quake in Mexico that killed nearly 10,000 people.
It also follows on the heels of a quake in Mexico earlier this month that left at least 90 dead.
  President Enrique Pena Nieto has declared three days of mourning even as soldiers, police, firefighters and citizen-volunteers continued Thursday to hunt for survivors in the debris of dozens of collapsed buildings across Mexico City.
"There are still people groaning.
There are three more floors to remove rubble from.
And you still hear people in there,” said Evodio Dario Marcelino, a volunteer working with dozens of others at a collapsed apartment building told the Associated Press.
Miguel Angel Mancera, Mexico City`s mayor, said three people were pulled alive from a collapsed office building Wednesday night, almost 36 hours after the quake.
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