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The Latest: Ecuador VP: Quake toll hits 77 dead, 578 injured

Police look at a car crushed under a collapsed overpass in Guayaquil, Ecuador, Saturday April 16, 2016. The strongest earthquake to hit Ecuador in decades flattened buildings and buckled highways along the country's coast, killing at least 41 people and causing damage hundreds of miles (kilometers) away from the epicenter in the capital and other major cities.(AP Photo/Jeff Castro)
Police look at a car crushed under a collapsed overpass in Guayaquil, Ecuador, Saturday April 16, 2016. The strongest earthquake to hit Ecuador in decades flattened buildings and buckled highways along the country's coast, killing at least 41 people and causing damage hundreds of miles (kilometers) away from the epicenter in the capital and other major cities.(AP Photo/Jeff Castro)

By Associated Press 2 min read

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) – The Latest on the earthquake in Ecuador. (all times local):

2:20 a.m.

Ecuador’s vice president says the toll in the country’s devastating earthquake has risen to 77 dead and 578 injured.

Vice President Jorge Glas made the announcement early Sunday on the Security Ministry’s Twitter account.

Glas and emergency rescue workers are pressing to reach the sparsely populated area of fishing ports and tourist beaches along the country’s Pacific coast where the magnitude-7.8 quake struck after nightfall on Saturday.