Author: Dolores Ochoa
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Earthquake kills 238 in Ecuador; emergency workers rush in
PEDERNALES, Ecuador — Rescuers pulled survivors from rubble Sunday after the strongest earthquake to hit Ecuador in decades flattened buildings and buckled highways along its Pacific coast. Officials said the quake had killed at least 238 people and injured more than 1,500. The magnitude-7.8 quake, the strongest to hit Ecuador since 1979, was centered on…