Watch The death rate in Chile earthquake is more than 708 people
The death rate in Chile earthquake is more than 708 people,.
Rescuers helping quake victims which remain in a apartment block early Sunday even as looters stole food and robbed banks after one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck Chile.
Authorties says abot magnitde of quake 8.8 and death rate may be increase, They said 1.5 million Chileans were affected and 500,000 homes damaged by the mammoth temblor.
Rescuer men told that looter are creating problem and they are creating problem.
A tsunami caused by the quake that swept across the Pacific killed several people on a Chilean island and devastated over coastal communities near the epicenter, but caused little damage in other countries.
President Michelle Bachelet, who leaves office March 11, declared a “state of catastrophe” in central Chile. “It was a catastrophe of devastating consequences,” she said.
Officials said earlier they had counted 214 dead, but more victims were being found. “At the moment there are some 300 fatalities,” Jose Abumohor, a duty chief at the National Emergency Agency, said Sunday.
Police said more than 100 people died in Concepcion, the largest city near the epicenter with more than 200,000 people. The university was among the buildings that caught fire around the city as gas and power lines snapped. Many streets were littered with rubble from edifices and inmates escaped from a nearby prison.
