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Ecuador earthquake: Death toll jumps to 246; more than 2,500 injured

By Ralph Ellis, Faith Karimi and Azadeh Ansari, CNN

 

Updated 0219 GMT (0919 HKT) April 18, 2016

 

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Story highlights

  • Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa arrives Sunday from the Vatican
  • "Now we are on the street with nothing," a woman says
  • Death toll rises to 246, Ecuadoran vice president says
 

(CNN)Rescue crews searched desperately through rubble Sunday for survivors of a magnitude-7.8 earthquake that struck coastal Ecuador.

The death toll has soared to 246, Ecuador's Vice President Jorge Glas said Sunday evening on Ecuador TV. At least 2,527 people were injured, he said.
The hardest-hit area was the coastal Manabi Province, where about 200 people died, said Ricardo Peñaherrera of Ecuador's national emergency management office. The cities of Manta, Portoviejo and Pedernales, a tourist destination, saw the most devastation but damage was widespread throughout the country.
"It was the worst experience of my life," survivor Jose Meregildo said Sunday about the tremors that violently shook his house in Guayaquil, 300 miles away from the quake's epicenter. "Everybody in my neighborhood was screaming saying it was going to be the end of the world."
"I found my house like this," said Nely Intriago, standing in front of a pile of rubble. "What am I going to do? Cry, that's what. Now we are on the street with nothing."
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Ecuador earthquake: Death toll jumps to 246; more than 2,500 injured

By Ralph Ellis, Faith Karimi and Azadeh Ansari, CNN

 

Updated 0219 GMT (0919 HKT) April 18, 2016

 

 

 
 

 

 
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Rescue workers search the rubble of a collapsed building for victims in Guayaquil, Ecuador, on Sunday, April 17. A magnitude-7.8 quake struck off Ecuador's central coast on Saturday, April 16, flattening buildings and buckling highways. It's the deadliest quake to strike the South American country in decades.
 
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Rescue workers search the rubble of a collapsed building for victims in Guayaquil, Ecuador, on Sunday, April 17. A magnitude-7.8 quake struck off Ecuador's central coast on Saturday, April 16, flattening buildings and buckling highways. It's the deadliest quake to strike the South American country in decades.
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Vehicles from a car dealership hang on a precipice caused by an earthquake induced landslide in Portoviejo, Ecuador, on April 17.
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Rescue workers search the rubble of a collapsed building for victims in Guayaquil, Ecuador, on Sunday, April 17. A magnitude-7.8 quake struck off Ecuador's central coast on Saturday, April 16, flattening buildings and buckling highways. It's the deadliest quake to strike the South American country in decades.
 
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Rescue workers search the rubble of a collapsed building for victims in Guayaquil, Ecuador, on Sunday, April 17. A magnitude-7.8 quake struck off Ecuador's central coast on Saturday, April 16, flattening buildings and buckling highways. It's the deadliest quake to strike the South American country in decades.
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The earthquake hit Saturday night, buckling overpasses, causing houses to collapse and knocking out power in Guayaquil, Ecuador's most populous city, authorities said. People left their homes and wandered around, some sleeping in the streets.
People looking for family and friends frantically dug with their hands and tools until excavation equipment arrived. Emergency officials recovered one body from the scene of a bridge collapse there.
Video showed rescuers looking for a young girl underneath the rubble of the Hotel Miami in the province of Manabi, finally pulling her out and taking her away on a stretcher.

Armed forces, police deployed

In a race to help residents, Ecuador deployed 10,000 soldiers and 4,600 police officers to the affected areas. The armed forces built mobile hospitals in Pedernales and Portoviejo and set up temporary shelters.
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