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A family sits next to their belongings on a street in Pisco
18 Aug 2007
Source: Reuters
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A family sits next to their belongings on a street in Pisco August 17, 2007. A powerful aftershock rattled Peru on Friday, sowing panic as rescue teams and volunteers scrambled to find survivors of a massive earthquake earlier this week that killed about 500 people.
REUTERS/MARIANA BAZO


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Peru's Health Minister Carlos Vallejos (C) and his Chilean counterpart Soledad Barria (R) talk to a woman at the hospital in Pisco August 21, 2007. Wednesday's 8.0 magnitude quake devastated several cities on Peru's central-Pacific coast, and getting emergency supplies to tens of thousands of people left homeless has become a logistical nightmare for the Peruvian government.


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