Death toll rises to 262 in Ecuador earthquake
THE HINDU, QUITO | 18 April 2016 09:56 IST
Vice President Jorge Glas said more than 2,500 people were injured in Saturday night’s earthquake.
Rescuers pulled survivors from rubble on Sunday after the strongest earthquake to hit Ecuador in decades flattened buildings and buckled highways along its Pacific coast.
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