Update: At Least 450 Killed in Big Peru Quake
Friday August 17, 2007 1:31 AM
By JEANNETH VALDIVIESO
Associated Press Writers

PISCO, Peru (AP) - The death toll rose to 450 on Thursday in the magnitude-8 earthquake that devastated cities of adobe and brick in Peru's southern desert. Survivors wearing blankets walked like ghosts through the ruins.

Dust-covered dead were pulled out and laid in rows in the streets, or beneath bloodstained sheets at damaged hospitals and morgues. Doctors struggled to help more than 1,500 injured, including hundreds who waited on cots in the open air, fearing more aftershocks would send the structures crashing down. the rest

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