Quake kills 272 along devastated Ecuador coast

By Julia Symmes Cobb and Daniel Tapia PEDERNALES, Ecuador (Reuters) - The death toll from Ecuador's biggest earthquake in decades soared to 272 on Sunday as survivors cobbled together makeshift coffins to bury loved ones, lined up for water and sought shelter beside the rubble of their shattered homes. "Ecuador has been hit tremendously hard... This is the greatest tragedy in the last 67 years," said a shaken President Rafael Correa, who rushed back to Ecuador from a visit to Italy. "There are s