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The toll has continued to climb gradually nearly two weeks after the earthquake as bodies keep being pulled from the rubble \u2014 though nearly all the collapse sites have been cleared by now in Mexico City. (Photo<\/a> by Kira Balestra (Owner of KiB Designs)\/Flickr<\/a>, Public Domain)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MEXICO CITY \u2014 The death toll from Mexico’s magnitude 7.1 earthquake rose to 361 on Sunday after another casualty was confirmed in the capital, where a search continued at a collapsed seven-story office building in a central neighbourhood.<\/p>\n

National Civil Defence chief Luis Felipe Puente reported on Twitter that the dead include 220 people killed in Mexico City by the Sept. 19 quake. The rest were in Morelos, Puebla and three other states.<\/p>\n

The toll has continued to climb gradually nearly two weeks after the earthquake as bodies keep being pulled from the rubble \u2014 though nearly all the collapse sites have been cleared by now in Mexico City.<\/p>\n

Mayor Miguel Angel Mancera said eight people were still believed to be missing inside the wreckage of the office building, one of 38 structures that toppled in the capital.<\/p>\n

Rescuers \u201ccontinue to work intensely\u201d at the site, Mancera said in a Sunday briefing on rescue and recovery efforts.<\/p>\n

He also confirmed the latest figure of 220 dead in his city and said all but one had been identified. Female victims outnumbered male victims 136 to 84, and 29 of the dead were children.<\/p>\n

Mancera said 25 people remained hospitalized, including four whose condition was given as \u201cred\u201d and 21 listed as \u201cyellow.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thousands of civilians formed volunteer brigades to clear rubble and offer other help at the collapse sites, and many more have donated money, medicines and supplies at collection centres.<\/p>\n

Mancera said officials were in the process of compiling a database of those volunteers to create a kind of \u201cemergency corps in Mexico City where we know who to call, who to activate, who to contact\u201d in a future crisis. He said it would still be strictly on a volunteer basis.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe response of solidarity that Mexico City has had from civil society should not be cast aside,\u201d the mayor said.<\/p>\n

Mancera added that he would present a \u201cdigital risk atlas\u201d in the coming days for the city, much of which lies on the soft soil of a former lakebed and is particularly vulnerable to earthquakes.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, the mayor noted some people have set the sound of the city’s seismic alarm as their cellphone ringtone and urged them to remove it, saying it has provoked anxiety among a still-jittery populace.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt causes great confusion,\u201d he said. \u201cWe have had 911 calls asking us if (the alarm) was activated.\u201d<\/p>\n

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