Quake rescuers searching for survivors have given up hope

Rescuers said there was “no hope” of finding anyone else alive in the rubble of Pisco, a southern Peru port city levelled by a magnitude-8 earthquake that left at least 540 people dead.

“We’ve stopped the rescue work,” said Jorge Vera, a firefighter who led the operation to find survivors at the San Clemente church in Pisco. “We’re now working to recover the bodies.”