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Man dies in Mexico building collapse

At least one person has died and 17 have been injured when a building under construction collapsed in Mexico City.

Rescuers carry a body of a worker after a building collapsed in Mexico
At least one person has died and 17 have been injured when a building collapsed in Mexico City. (AAP)

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At least one worker has died and 17 more were injured when a building under construction collapsed in the Mexican capital, officials said.

The accident happened on Saturday on a corner of the Del Valle suburb where a substation of the Federal Electricity Commission was being built.

The fatality was identified as Jose Trinidad Santiago, 23, according to a communique from the Federal District's Public Safety Secretariat.

Eight of the injured were taken to hospitals in the capital, while the rest were treated for less serious injuries at the site of the collapse, the official note said.

The communique said that since the structure "could not support the weight" of a surface measuring some 100 square metres "it came down," which caused several of the 75 workers on the construction site to be buried under the rubble.


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