- (AFP) -- At least two people, including a two-week-old
infant, were killed and 75 people injured at dawn when an earthquake shook
the Panamanian port city of Puerto Armuelles near the Costa Rican border,
Red Cross and civil defense officials said.
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- The child was killed when a wall of his family's home
collapsed in Puerto Armuelles, some 500 km (300 miles) west of Panama City,
officials said.
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- A Costa Rican Red Cross official said radio reports from
Puerto Armuelles indicated a hospital there had been heavily damaged by
the quake and was being evacuated, adding Costa Rica was dispatching aid
to the affected region.
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- Costa Rica's Seismological and Vulcanological Observatory
earlier reported an undersea quake measuring 6.1 on the Richter Scale at
dawn off the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica near the Panamanian border.
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- It said the epicenter of the quake was about seven kilometers
(4 miles) off Puerto Armuelles.
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- Costa Rican authorities reported heavy damage to homes
in the border region abutting Panama, adding dozens of people were being
treated for injuries in a hospital 300 km (180 miles) south of San Jose.
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