Aftershocks hit as hunt for survivors continues
NZPA-Reuter San Salvador Rescuers continued to find survivors in the rubble of buildings destroyed by Saturday’s earthquake as strong aftershocks increased fears that the ordeal might not be over.
There were no immediate reports of damage from a tremor yesterday afternoon — the strongest of the numerous aftershocks — which the Gov-
ernment said measured five on the Richter scale. It caused rescuers to dash from the ruins of an office building out of which they later hauled Marisel Orellana, aged 21, who had suffered only a broken leg, and another man.
President Jose Napoleon Duarte has said Saturday’s earthquake, which measured 7.5 on the Richter scale, killed 890 people and wounded at
least 10,000. He said it left up to 200,000 people homeless and caused $2 billion ($3.94 billion) in damage to an economy already crippled by a seven-year civil war in which 60,000 people have been killed.
A Salvadorean Red Cross spokesman, Ernesto Ferrero, said water and electricity services had now been restored to .80 per cent of the capital.
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