Peruvians frustrated over slow emergency aid looted pharmacies and scuffled in food lines on Friday as rescuers picked through rubble for survivors two days after a massive earthquake killed at least 510 people. A powerful aftershock renewed panic on Friday and some people sprinted away from food lines in Pisco.
Peruvians pulled hundreds of dead from the rubble of homes and churches on Thursday and bodies piled up on street corners after a huge earthquake ravaged the country’s central coast. CNN reported that 510 people were killed and 1 500 injured in the 8,0-magnitude quake on Wednesday night.
Peruvians pulled hundreds of dead from the rubble of homes and churches on Thursday, piling some of them on street corners after a huge earthquake ravaged the country’s central coast. At least 437 people were killed in the 8,0-magnitude quake on Wednesday night, Peru’s civil defence agency said.
A massive earthquake hit Peru on Wednesday evening and officials said more than 330 people were dead in the rubble of collapsed homes and a church as rescuers searched for victims early on Thursday. Emergency workers said the coastal province of Ica south of Lima was the hardest-hit region.