Ecuador digs for survivors after quake kills 246

Rescuers in Ecuador burrowed through rubble where towns once stood in an increasingly desperate attempt to find survivors of an earthquake that killed at least 246 people and allowed scores of inmates to escape prison. President Rafael Correa, who cut short a trip to the Vatican, landed back in the country close to the disaster zone late Sunday to inspect the devastation, his Twitter account said. Although the oil-producing South American nation frequently suffers seismic shudders because of its