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Two years after Lorca earthquake and 5,000 are still homeless
Saturday, May 11, 2013 @ 8:45 PM

VICTIMS of the devastating earthquake in Lorca (Murcia) say there are still thousands of homeless families – two years on to the day.

Today (Saturday) is the second anniversary of the tremor which reached 5.6 on the Richter scale and left several dead, including an 11-year-old boy, as well as tens of thousands of homes reduced to rubble, leaving their owners on the street.

And residents of Lorca marked the occasion with a protest march, saying, 'this is not bureaucracy, it's just inefficient', and 'where am I going to sleep tonight?' 'Can you sleep in the churches?'

Read more at thinkSPAIN.com



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