Number of dead, missing still unclear as aid arrives in quake-hit Vanuatu

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The menu for the usual lunchtime rush was replaced with defrosted sausages, readied for emergency workers who are sifting through rubble for those trapped alive or killed in flattened buildings when the massive, 7.3 jolt hit Port Vila, Vanuatu's capital 48 hours earlier.

Amid the havoc wrought by a violent earthquake two days earlier, Ivan Oswald and his staff at Nambawan Cafe on an idyllic stretch of Vanuatu's waterfront prepared on Thursday for lunchtime service.

Earthquakes are normal for the South Pacific nation made up of 80 islands and home to 330,000 people, but Tuesday's terrifying shake was like nothing they had felt before.

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Topics: Official Chinese embassy in Vanuatu Main utilities Telecommunications Port Vila Gas pipes Nambawan Cafe Oswald the Lucky Rabbit United Nations Gu Zihua Glen Craig Vanuatu Business Resilience Council Nambawan South Pacific United Nations office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Airline Chair Search experts Online Services (NEC) Internet source Xinhua News Agency Ivan Oswald

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