By Jean Luis Arce
www.mirror.co.uk
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PISCO, Peru (Reuters) — A powerful aftershock rattled Peru on Friday, sowing panic as rescue teams and volunteers scrambled to find survivors of a massive earthquake earlier this week that killed about 500 people.

The aftershock had a 5.9 magnitude and damaged some homes in the region of Huancavelica, which lies south of the capital Lima and is one of Peru's most impoverished areas.

No one was killed but the aftershock terrified some residents of the towns hit hardest by Wednesday's 8.0 magnitude earthquake.

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