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Quake toll may hit 30,000
As rescue efforts enter their fourth day in the southeastern Iranian city of Bam, officials say the toll could reach 30,000 and that disease is now a threat.
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Alain Pasche, a member of a UN rescue coordination team, said on Monday operations to find survivors of the devastating earthquake would last for at least one more day. More than 2000 people have been pulled alive from rubble, said the head of the Iranian Red Crescent rescue operations, Bijan Daftari. "The search to find more people alive is continuing with the help of domestic and foreign rescue workers using sniffer dogs," he told the state news agency IRNA. But rescuers said they were no longer finding survivors - only the mangled remains of people killed when the world's most lethal quake in at least a decade levelled much of the ancient Silk Road city.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2003-12-29 |
