400,000 students back to school in Chile Text

Santiago, April 5 (IANS/EFE) More than 400,000 students will resume classes Monday in schools across Chile after a devastating earthquake destroyed large areas of the central and southern regions of the country, a minister said. President Sebastian Pinera had set a deadline of two months within which to re-establish normalcy in healthcare, education and road transport in the most affected zones after the Feb 27 earthquake, Education Minister Joaquin Lavin said. The president gave the ministry....




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