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Show .' Sunday, August 19, 2007 HERALD DAILY A2 MIwilb Established in 1873 A Leg Newspaper Customer Service Newsroom 375-510- 3 801-344-25- Toll free 8003803075 FAX www.heraldextra.com Street address: 1555 N. Freedom Blvd., FVovo, UT Send mail to: P.CX Box 717, Provo, UT8460M717 News Editors s ;. S r ' ' v'-- :' - , - i ' au ' t 1 ! J ? i - . , , . d i I? ; j - h! u: vV - mcAMip MAZAftANAssoiiated s street of Pisco, Peru, on Saturday. At least 510 people were killed and earthquake on Peru's southern coast, overwhelming the few hospitals in the region. A man sleeps In frank Bajak THE HOME DELIVERY 375-510- 3 7 e.m. For missing paper, Mon-F- ri Peru The government sent the army Saturday to atop looting fueled by rising desperation in earthquake-- , shattered Peru, where tens of thousands were without fresh water and shivering families huddled in makeshift shelters at the center of the devastation, In a soccer stadium in the port city of Pisco, more than 500 people rushed a lone truck that ran out little packets of crackers, candy and toilet pa-per, screaming that they had not eaten and accusing rescue workers of keeping supplies for themselves. As many as 80 percent of the people in quakehit urban areas may not have access to clean water and many rural communities still have not been readied to assess the damage, said Dominic Nutt, part of an emergency assessment team in Peru for the aid agency Save the Children. ' The situation is probably., worse than first imagined, PISCO, 3733450 CLASSIFIED 6 jn. Delivery by . Set-Su- call ASSOCIATED ADVERTISING . , by9:30 e.m. 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President Alan Garcia sent 1,000 troops to stop the looting. We're going to establish order, regardless of what it 'costs,' he said Meanwhile, Defense Minis- -' ter Allan Wagner told The Associated Press in Piscothat the death toll from Wednesday's. ... magnitude3 quake had risen to 540, up from the previous figure of 510 provided by fire- fighters. Destruction from the quake, Which also injured at least 1,500 people, was centered in the cities of lea and Pisco in v. Perus southern desert, about. 125 miles Southeast of the Capital, Lima. Garcia said at least 80,000 people were affected in some way, mostly through the destruction or damage of hornet At one end of a soccer field in Pisco, families who had lost. .. everything huddled in a half dozen makeshift shelters made of cardboard and blankets held up by wooden poles. We don't have water. The tents have not arrived, said . " : an ; open-fronte- 38, Motorcycle taxi driver Mar-c- o Coila said he had moved his family out of Pisco to a village where they had hoped to find morefood. There is nothing to eat. There is a lot of looting going ; pn, he said. Rescuers continued to pull bodies from the rubble of the San Clemente church in down- town Pisco, where hundreds ' had gathered for Mass when the quake struck Wednesday, But hopes of finding more survivors diminished. ... Paul Wooster, coordinator of the Rapid UK Rescue team from Gloucester, England, said rescuers were using sound detectors and infrared cameras to search mountains of rubbfe The latest survivor discovered, a man, was pulled from the rubble at midday Friday. ' We always work on a four-da- y window and I'm talking realistically. So we are still looking for survivors but there's not much more time," Wooster said. . empty-hande- Soldiers stood guard at supply depots and tried to ensure that aid trucks made M to their destinations. Miguel Soto, a police officer 'standing guard in the Pisco stadium, said food donated by one Lima district had been raided on the trafficdogged highway to Pisco. Many other food trucks simply weren't getting through, he said. " Responding to criticism that aid was not arriving quickly enough, Jorge del Castillo, Gardas Cabinet chief, told El Comerico newspaper said that all planes available were now being used to ferry supplies to the victims. Immediately after the quake, many of the aircraft . . . ' 'if t Sir'll 11 I . toLinp,hesakL d price-gougin- . . were used to carry the injured who shared shelter with nine other people. She shivered in the ocean breeze. Some people complained of g And said the cost of bask: foods had doubled or tripled at the' local market. Others arrived ip Pisco's central .: square asking for canned milk' and other goods but often left Maria Tataja, . PRESS Piess 1,500 were injured in the magnitude-- 8 .. ,, r . ITT-- 2J r - ' Ifr.vrr DfeHfMVAr ' tm. 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