Death toll from Mexico quake rises

The official death toll after Mexico's 8.1 magnitude earthquake has risen to 96 as more deaths were confirmed in the hard-hit southern states of Oaxaca and Chiapas.

The Foreign Relations Department said 95 people had died nationwide in Thursday's quake, and Chiapas state civil defence director Luis Manuel Garcia Moreno said later that the number of deaths there had risen from 15 to 16.