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Dozens killed as 7.8-magnitude earthquake hits Ecuador
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/17/more-than-20-people-killed-in-huge-earthquake-off-ecuador<snip>
Ecuador’s Pacific coast was struck by the country’s strongest earthquake in decades, a 7.8-magnitude tremor that has killed at least 77 people, flattened buildings and damaged roads near the epicentre, as well as in the country’s largest city of Guayaquil.
President Rafael Correa declared a national emergency and urged the country’s 16 million people to stay calm. More than 570 people are believed to have been injured in the quake.
“Our infinite love to the families of the dead,” he said on Twitter, while cutting short a trip to Italy to return home.
The vice-president, Jorge Glas,said it was the strongest quake to hit Ecuador since 1979. “We continue to receive information,” he said, adding that 16 people had died in the city of Poroviejo, 10 in Manta and others in the province of Guayas.
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