Desperate search for quake survivors as death tops 350

The number of people killed in a powerful earthquake that struck Ecuador over the weekend has risen to about 350, the government has said. There have been desperate scenes as rescuers and families searched for survivors, often with bare hands. Teams from Switzerland, Spain and several Latin American countries have joined the search effort. More […]

The number of people killed in a powerful earthquake that struck Ecuador over the weekend has risen to about 350, the government has said.
There have been desperate scenes as rescuers and families searched for survivors, often with bare hands.
Teams from Switzerland, Spain and several Latin American countries have joined the search effort.
More than 2,000 people were injured in the quake.
Earlier President Rafael Correa warned that the death toll was likely to rise, and that there were still people alive under the rubble of collapsed buildings.