PORT VILA, Vanuatu — Rescue workers have expanded a search for survivors in quake-rocked Vanuatu to 'numerous places of collapse' beyond the stricken capital, as the reported death toll climbed to 10.
PORT VILA, Vanuatu — Rescue workers have expanded a search for survivors in quake-rocked Vanuatu to 'numerous places of collapse' beyond the stricken capital, as the reported death toll climbed to 10.The 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck off the main island on Tuesday, toppling concrete buildings, setting off landslides, damaging water supplies, and knocking out mobile networks.
'In Port Vila, rescuers have focused on two disaster areas: a four-story building housing a supermarket, hotel and garage in the north in which the ground floor was flattened; and a two-floor shopping block in the city center that crumbled into a flat pile of concrete.Nighttime curfewThe quake also wrecked a building housing the US, French, British, Australian and New Zealand diplomatic missions.
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