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04-20-2016, 06:06 AM
Ecuadorean pulled from rubble won't need coffin his wife bought
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Despite the grief roiling this earthquake-stricken town, Pablo Cordova has something to be thankful for: He can return the coffin his wife had obtained for his funeral.
The 51-year-old hotel administrator was one of a trickle of survivors pulled from the rubble after Ecuador's strongest earthquake in decades flattened towns along the coast and killed at least 480 people.
SEE ALSO: Photos from Ecuador show massive earthquake's devastation (http://mashable.com/2016/04/18/ecuador-earthquake-photos/)
Cordova's wife had given up on ever seeing him again after the five-story Gato de Portoviejo hotel collapsed on him Saturday night, pancaked by the magnitude-7.8 earthquake like the rest of downtown. She asked his boss to buy his casket. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/04/19/ecuador-earthquake-survivor/)
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Despite the grief roiling this earthquake-stricken town, Pablo Cordova has something to be thankful for: He can return the coffin his wife had obtained for his funeral.
The 51-year-old hotel administrator was one of a trickle of survivors pulled from the rubble after Ecuador's strongest earthquake in decades flattened towns along the coast and killed at least 480 people.
SEE ALSO: Photos from Ecuador show massive earthquake's devastation (http://mashable.com/2016/04/18/ecuador-earthquake-photos/)
Cordova's wife had given up on ever seeing him again after the five-story Gato de Portoviejo hotel collapsed on him Saturday night, pancaked by the magnitude-7.8 earthquake like the rest of downtown. She asked his boss to buy his casket. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/04/19/ecuador-earthquake-survivor/)
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