President Rafael Correa describes ‘sad days for the homeland’ in TV broadcast as 130 remain lost after 7.8 magnitude quakeThe death toll from final week’s earthquake in Ecuador has risen to 646,the president, Rafael Correa, and has said. The 7.8 magnitude quake,Ecuador’s worst in nearly seven decades, injured about 12500 people and left 130 lost along the country’s ravaged Pacific coast.
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Source: theguardian.com