Shaken Ecuador hunts for survivors amid 7.8 quake debris
  • 8 years ago
Traumatized Ecuadoreans slept amid rubble while rescuers dug for survivors on Monday after an earthquake smashed the Andean nation's coastal region killing at least 272 people and flattening resort towns. Saturday's 7.8 magnitude quake ripped apart buildings and roads knocked out power, and injured at least 2,068 people in the largely poor Andean country About 230 aftershocks have rattled survivors, who huddled in the streets, worried the flow of tremors could topple their already cracked homes.

 
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