A SPANISH doctor is among the dead in the horrific earthquake in México – the second in a fortnight – which has killed 21 school children after their classrooms collapsed.
Leopoldo Nieto Cisneros, 66, was born in Madrid but his family is from Alcázar de San Juan in the province of Ciudad Real, in the dead centre of Spain, a town he spent a great deal of time in.
Dr Nieto Cisneros, also a medical researcher, had been living in México for 40 years and practising all that time.
He was a specialist in treating HIV and AIDS and had carried out extensive research in the area.
According to the Spanish embassy in México, Leopoldo lived at number 4 of the C/ Edimburgo in the capital.
Spanish authorities are attempting to trace around a dozen missing citizens, who may include tourists and expats born in Spain as well as Mexican-born individuals who have joint or full Spanish nationality.
The tremor, which reached 7.1 on the Richter scale, was so violent that deaths have been reported up to 160 kilometres from the epicentre in the capital, México DF.
In addition to the 108 who died in the city, another 13 have been killed in the wider State, plus four in the State of Guerrero, one in Oaxaca, 69 in Morelos and 43 in Puebla.
The earthquake is not believed to be an aftershock of the 8.2 tremor on September 7, but a separate one, and exactly 32 years to the day since the worst quake ever in México's history
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