The earthquake with about 6.8 magnitude, as reported by the U.S. Geological Survey, killed at least 15 people and brought down homes and buildings in parts of Ecuador and Peru.
By Sunday, the number of people injured in Ecuador was reported to be at least 446. The earthquake centered just off the Pacific Coast, about 50 miles south of Guayaquil, Ecuador’s second-largest city.One of the victims died in Peru, while 14 others died in Ecuador, where authorities also reported more than 300 damaged homes, schools, health care centers and other buildings.
In El Oro, the agency also reported that several people were trapped under rubble. In the community of Machala, a two-story home collapsed before people could evacuate, a pier gave way and a building’s walls cracked, trapping an unknown number of people. In Peru, the earthquake was felt from its northern border with Ecuador to the central Pacific coast. Peruvian Prime Minister Alberto Otárola said a 4-year-old girl died from head trauma she suffered in the collapse of her home in the Tumbes region, on the border with Ecuador.
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