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Survivors of Iran quake rescued, 7 dead
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December 22, 2010, Wednesday
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RESCUE teams managed to pull all survivors from under the rubble yesterday after a magnitude 6.5 earthquake struck a remote area in southeastern Iran late Monday night, killing seven and injuring 33 people.
According to the Iranian state TV, the strong quake hit Hosseinabad, a small town of a few hundred residents in a sparsely populated Chah Malek region in the country's southeast at 10:12pm (local time) on Monday.
Mahmoud Mozaffar, head of the rescue department of Iran's Red Crescent, told state TV that four of the fatalities were school students, three of them girls. He said the rescue operation ended around noon yesterday and no more fatalities were expected.
Earlier yesterday, Mohammad Barzang, the governor of Rigan, another small town in the stricken area, said collapsed houses in three remote villages had buried dozens under the rubble. Barzang said relief teams were dispatched to the area and that more than 2,000 families needed tents to live in since their houses were damaged up to 60 percent.
The area is not far from the historical city of Bam, site of a devastating 2003 earthquake of similar strength that killed more than 26,000 people.
Telephone contacts with the stricken area were cut and the water supply system was badly affected but electricity was restored, the TV reported. It said the epicenter was at a depth of 5 kilometers, 100km from Bam.
The official IRNA news agency said as many as 40 aftershocks rocked the region following the quake, including one magnitude 5 tremor.
According to the Iranian state TV, the strong quake hit Hosseinabad, a small town of a few hundred residents in a sparsely populated Chah Malek region in the country's southeast at 10:12pm (local time) on Monday.
Mahmoud Mozaffar, head of the rescue department of Iran's Red Crescent, told state TV that four of the fatalities were school students, three of them girls. He said the rescue operation ended around noon yesterday and no more fatalities were expected.
Earlier yesterday, Mohammad Barzang, the governor of Rigan, another small town in the stricken area, said collapsed houses in three remote villages had buried dozens under the rubble. Barzang said relief teams were dispatched to the area and that more than 2,000 families needed tents to live in since their houses were damaged up to 60 percent.
The area is not far from the historical city of Bam, site of a devastating 2003 earthquake of similar strength that killed more than 26,000 people.
Telephone contacts with the stricken area were cut and the water supply system was badly affected but electricity was restored, the TV reported. It said the epicenter was at a depth of 5 kilometers, 100km from Bam.
The official IRNA news agency said as many as 40 aftershocks rocked the region following the quake, including one magnitude 5 tremor.
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