Crowds Loot Grocery Store in City Hit Hard by Quake

NY Daily News: Jacqueline van Rysselberghe, the mayor of Concepcion in southern Chile, near the epicenter, said the hard-hit city of 500,000 was “out of control” as the populace sacked supermarkets and drugstores.





“We have to eat,” a housewife told Chilean TV as a people toted milk cartons, washing machines and even plasma TVs out of looted stores.





“People have gone days without eating,” said looter Orlando Salazar.

“The only option is to come here and get stuff for ourselves.”