The Latest: Ecuador death toll rises to 525

Maria Victoria, 89, is comforted by her daughter Mariana in Estancia Las Palmas, Ecuador, Tuesday, April 19, 2016. Maria Victoria was injured when a column fell on her after 7.8-magnitude earthquake collapsed her home. The strongest earthquake to hit Ecuador in decades flattened buildings and buckled highways along its Pacific coast, sending the Andean nation into a state of emergency. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd) (The Associated Press)

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Residents comb through a field, salvaging recyclable material from post-earthquake debris, in Manta, Ecuador, Wednesday, April 20, 2016. Ecuadoreans began burying loved ones felled by the country's deadliest earthquake in decades, while hopes faded that more survivors will be found. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd) (The Associated Press)

Vendors sell fish in a makeshift market, set up near the business district which was severely damaged by a 7.8-magnitude earthquake, in Manta, Ecuador, Wednesday, April 20, 2016. Businesses are slowly opening, although electricity and running water are still scarce in the Pacific coastal city. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd) (The Associated Press)

MONTECRISTI, Ecuador – The Latest on the impact of the Ecuadorean earthquake (all times local):

3:45 a.m.

Ecuador's National Prosecutors Office says the death toll from the weekend earthquake has risen to 525, up from a previous official toll of 507.

The office said on its official Twitter account Wednesday that there were at least 11 foreigners among the dead.

It said 15 of the dead remained unidentified but none was foreign.

The office said 435 of the dead were found in the Manta, Portoviejo and Pedernales areas.

The Defense Department reported Tuesday that more than 200 people were still missing following the 7.8-magnitude earthquake Saturday.

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3:00 a.m.

Ecuadoreans began burying loved ones felled by the country's deadliest earthquake in decades, while hopes faded that more survivors will be found.

In the small town of Montecristi, near the port city of Manta, two children were among those buried Tuesday. The funeral had to be held outside under a makeshift awning, because the town's Roman Catholic church was unsafe from structural damage. Family members wailed loudly and one man fainted as the children were laid to rest in an above-ground vault.

Scenes of mourning multiplied all along Ecuador's normally placid Pacific coastline, where the tremor flattened towns.

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Associated Press writers Joshua Goodman in Bogota, Colombia, Gonzalo Solano in Quito, Ecuador and Ciaran Giles in Madrid, contributed to this report.