By IANS
Santiago : Two people were killed and about 140 injured when an earthquake measuring 7.7 on the Richter scale rocked northern Chile, the Spanish news agency EFE reported Thursday.
Officials said the town of Tocopilla, the epicentre of the quake, bore the brunt. Both two deaths occurred there. Of the injured, 110 were from that city.
According to Carmen Fernandez, head of the National Office of Emergencies, doctors have set up makeshift clinics to attend to the injured as the town’s hospital was heavily damaged.
More than 4,000 people have been rendered homeless by the quake.
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