MEXICO CITY — The last body known to be trapped in rubble has been recovered two weeks after a magnitude 7.1 earthquake killed at least 369 people in Mexico, officials said Wednesday.
The body was recovered from a collapsed office building in central Mexico City where a steadily dwindling number of families kept vigil as an international assortment of rescuers worked a massive rubble heap.
Jumpsuit-clad rescuers on Wednesday still clambered over what remained of the seven-floor building, which counted an employment agency and an accounting firm as tenants.
A massive crane sat idle as workers began breaking down tents that had housed relatives of those trapped. A tent set up by the attorney general’s office to take DNA samples from relatives still stood beside them.
‘‘Honestly, it’s sad, for the families, for everyone,’’ said Yosh Corte, a volunteer from the city of Leon who had been at the site since shortly after the Sept. 19 temblor. He lost friends in Mexico’s 1985 earthquake, which killed thousands. ‘‘It’s difficult for everyone.’’
Forty-nine bodies were found in the collapsed building.
Mexico City Mayor Miguel Angel Mancera said the office building was the last place in the city where bodies were being recovered. ‘‘We have no reports of missing persons,’’ he said. Mancera added that all bodies had been identified. He said 16 people injured in the quake remained hospitalized.
The Civil Defense chief, Luis Felipe Puente, tweeted that the death toll had risen to 369. Of those, 228 were in the capital.