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Subscribe to RSSThousands of people spent the night outdoors in a southeastern Spanish city in fear of further tremors Thursday after the country's worst earthquakes in 50 years killed eight people and injured dozens.
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People wait wrapped in blankets in the streets of Lorca, southern Spain, on May 12 after a magnitude 5.2 quake killed at least 8 people, toppling buildings into the streets and sending panicked residents fleeing. Thousands of terrified Lorca residents spent a night shivering in parking lots, public squares and playgrounds fearing aftershocks from a quake of an intensity they never expected.
Ambulance workers tend to the needy people who are spending the night outside their homes in Lorca, Spain, in the early hours of May 12.
People draped in blankets to protect them from the morning cold lined up for hot drinks handed out by voluntary workers at the five makeshift camps in parks and a trade show center set up in the small city of Lorca after it was hit by the two quakes — with magnitudes of 4.4 and 5.2 — a day earlier.
The mayor of the southern town, Francisco Jodar, told reporters as many as a third of Lorca's 90,000 residents spent the night outdoors. Continue reading.
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A fireman stands in front of a destroyed house in Lorca, southern Spain, early on May 12.
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People spend the night outside their homes in Lorca, Spain, in the early hours of May 12.
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Cars smashed by debris in Lorca, southern Spain, on May 12.
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