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April 19, 2016

Young nun, postulants among hundreds of Ecuador earthquake victims

Relatives carry the coffin of a relative on a vehicle in Pedernales, Ecuador, April 17, after an earthquake struck the previous day off the country's Pacific coast. At least 272 people died, nearly 3,000 were injured and thousands were left homeless in the magnitude-7.8 earthquake.

WASHINGTON – Six members of the Servant Sisters of the Home of the Mother, including a young nun from Northern Ireland, are among the dead in the strongest earthquake to strike Ecuador since 1979.

Published in International