Thirty people are still missing after a school pancaked in the Mexico earthquake.

At least 217 people are confirmed dead following the 7.1 magnitude quake, which struck the centre of the country.

That includes 20 who died when Enrique Rebsamen school pancaked in Mexico City.

Mexico correspondent David Agren told Rachel Smalley rescuers are still searching the four storey building.

"What rescuers are saying is that it is really dense rubble and they are picking through it rock by rock, there are several hundred soldiers."

He said rescuers coming out of the school say they don't expect to find any survivors.

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