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Summary:Official estimates put the death toll from the 1970 Peru earthquake at 50,000 people, with at least 100,000 homes destroyed and half a million inhabitants without shelter. On June 3 the town of Huarez, capital of the worst-hit region, was in ruins and rescuers were still trying to reach the bodies of those buried beneath the wreckage.
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