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QUITO, Ecuador (AFP) — Some 1,700 people are still missing three days after a big earthquake struck Ecuador, an official said Tuesday, raising fears that a death toll currently put at 480 could dramatically rise. “We have 2,000 people listed that are being looked for, but we have so far found 300,” Deputy Interior Minister Diego Fuentes told reporters in the capital Quito. “Right now we have 480 people who were killed and approximately 2,560 […]
PORTOVIEJO, MANABI, Ecuador (Reuters) – As the death toll from Ecuador’s biggest earthquake in decades soared to at least 246 on Sunday (April 17), desperate victims begged Vice President Jorge Glass to help find their missing relatives as rescuers using tractors and bare hands hunted desperately for survivors in shattered coastal towns. The 7.8 magnitude quake struck off the Pacific coast on Saturday and was felt around the Andean nation of 16 million people, causing […]
