Harrowing moment a boy's body is pulled from the rubble as hope fades of finding survivors after devastating 7.8 earthquake that killed at least 246 people in Ecuador [our thoughts and prayers with families in Ecuador]

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT - Using their bare hands, exhausted rescuers heaved the body of the young boy (pictured) from the rubble of building which was destroyed by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake which struck off Ecuador's west coast. More than 246 were killed, and at least 1,500 more injured, when the strongest quake to hit the Andean country in decades flattened entire villages. As locals wept for the loved ones they lost in the natural disaster (bottom left), rescuers continued to sift through the bricks and mortar of flattened buildings to look for trapped survivors. Vice President Jorge Glas said the death toll will likely rise further in what he called the 'worst seismic movement we have faced in decades'. There were reports of at least 163 aftershocks, mainly in the badly affected Pedernales area, and a state of emergency was declared in six provinces.

Daily Mail | 18 April 2016