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| 510 dead, search on for survivors |
| The number of dead rose to 510 in the magnitude-8 earthquake that devastated cities of adobe and brick in Peru's southern desert
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| PERU
, 17-August-2007
10:30:2 AM |
| The number of dead rose to 510 in the magnitude-8 earthquake that devastated cities of adobe and brick in Peru's southern desert.
Survivors wearing blankets walked like ghosts through the ruins.
Dust-covered dead were pulled out and laid in rows in the streets, or beneath bloodstained sheets at damaged hospitals and morgues on Thursday.
Doctors struggled to help more than 1,500 injured, including hundreds who waited on cots in the open air, fearing more aftershocks would send the structures crashing down.
Destruction was centered in Peru's southern desert, at the oasis city of Ica and the nearby port of Pisco, about 125 miles (200 kilometers) southeast of the capital, Lima.
The deputy chief of Peru's fire department, Roberto Ognio, presented a report saying the death toll from the quake had risen to 510. He did not say where the additional 60 deaths had occurred
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