* Peru Quake - Desperate survivors loot supply trucks

Pisco,Peru -AFP -17 Aug 2007: -- ... As rescue teams raced against time to find any suvivors still buried in the rubble two days after the quake, tempers frayed anger at the slowness of the arrival of emergency aid... Lacking official figures, news media estimate the number of people affected by the quake at anywhere from 60,000 and 200,000 with many tens of thousand believed to have lost their homes... (Photo left by AP - Aug. 17: An aerial view of destroyed houses in Pisco following a deadly earthquake that hit southern Peru - Photo right by Rodrigo Arangua/AFP - Crack in the wall in the wake of the giant quake in Peru - )
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