PEDERNALES/CANOA/MANTA: Rescuers and desperate families clawed through rubble, pulling out survivors two days after an earthquake that killed at least 413 people and devastated a tourist region of Ecuador.

The earthquake-stricken poor South American country faced the grim reality of recovering more bodies than survivors as rescue efforts moved into a third day on Tuesday.

Teams from Ecuador and neighboring countries fanned out across the country’s Pacific coastline to look for the dozens of people still missing.

In the port city of Manta, a group of about 50 rescuers working with sniffer dogs, hydraulic jacks and a drill managed to free eight people trapped for more than 32 hours in the rubble of a shopping center that was flattened by Saturday night’s quake.

Among the stories of survival, authorities reported that one person was found alive Monday afternoon under the rubble of the El Gato hotel in Portoviejo.

Local media reported that a girl was rescued from the ruins of a building after being trapped for 20 hours in the hard-hit town of Pedernales, at the center of the quake.