엎친데 덮쳐' 또 규모 6.2 여진 강타…공포에 휩싸인 에콰도르
Just a few days after a powerful earthquake hit Ecuador,... another aftershock rattled the country last night.
The death toll from Saturday's devastating quake has risen to more than five-hundred-70,... more than forty-six thousand are injured and over one hundred are still missing.
Kim Hye-sung has the latest.
Over four-hundred aftershocks have rattled Ecuador since the earthquake first hit the country last Saturday,... with the latest one Wednesday night registering six-point-two on the Richter Scale.
The tremor was centered offshore, 70 kilometers from the town of Esmeraldas,... which lies north of the original quake's epicenter.
Wednesday's aftershock came as Ecuadorians began burying loved ones, while hopes faded that more survivors will be found.
"All of our houses are on the ground. Everything is lost. Everything is lost. There is nothing more to do about what was God's desire. There is nothing more to do."
Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa said the cost of rebuilding the nation could be up to 3 billion U.S. dollars and said he's considering whether to issue government bonds to finance the project.
Global aid organizations are rushing in to send support to the South American country.
The World Food Programme is sending supplies and the UN Refugee Agency is preparing to send temporary shelters.
A dozen countries are also involved in the relief effort.
Korea said Wednesday that it would send 7-hundred thousand U.S. dollars worth of humanitarian aid to the hardest hit areas.
Kim Hye-sung, Arirang News.
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