Residents in Chile’s earthquake-ravaged city of Concepcion dumped new televisions, fridges and furniture on roadsides on Sunday to avoid arrest.
Aftershocks rattled Chile on Friday, panicking residents nearly a week after one of the most powerful earthquakes on record devastated coastal towns.
A tsunami alert sent terrified Chileans running for higher ground on Wednesday, while a surge of troops finally brought order to Concepción.
Troops fired tear gas and imposed a curfew on Monday to stop looters running off with trolley-loads of goods from the wreckage of Chile’s quake.
Chilean rescuers used shovels and sledgehammers on Sunday to find survivors of a huge earthquake in Chile that unleashed a Pacific tsunami.
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/ 28 February 2010
Fearful Chileans camped outside on Sunday in towns shattered by a massive earthquake, as officials struggled to grasp the scale of the damage.