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   From:  Watchman77    Dec-27 6:18 am  
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Saturday, December 27, 2003
 
BAM, Iran   The death toll from a massive 6.7 magnitude earthquake (search) in Iran (search) has hit 20,000 and will likely go higher, according to the Interior Ministry.

More than 30,000 were also injured in the quake that devastated the historic city of Bam (search). 

Overwhelmed rescue crews picked through entire city blocks of rubble in search for survivors and bodies on Saturday, one day after the huge temblor. 

"As more bodies are pulled out, we fear that the death toll may reach as high as 40,000. An unbelievable human disaster has occurred," said Akbar Alavi, the governor of the city of Kerman, the provincial capital. 

The leader of one relief team, Ahmad Najafi, said in one street alone in Bam on Saturday, 200 bodies had been extracted from the rubble in one hour's work. Workers used their bare hands and shovels, while a few bulldozers moved piles of bricks in the search for bodies and survivors. 

With hospitals in the area destroyed, military transport planes had to evacuate many wounded for treatment to Kerman, and even to Tehran. 

"There is not a standing building in the city. Bam has turned into a wasteland. Even if a few buildings are standing, you cannot trust to live in them," Interior Minister Abdolvahed Mousavi Lari told reporters Saturday. 

One man interrupted Lari as he spoke. "My father is under the rubble," the man said, his face streaked with tears. "I've been asking for help since yesterday, but nobody has come to help me. Please help me. I want my father alive." 

Lari tried to calm the man down and assigned an aide to see that he got assistance. 

Thousands of residents of the city spent Friday night outdoors, sleeping under blankets in temperatures close to freezing. A few hundred slept in tents erected by relief workers. 

Men and women were seen slapping their own faces and beating their chests in an Islamic ritual of mourning. 

"This is the Apocalypse. There is nothing but devastation and debris," Mohammed Karimi, in his 30s, said Friday when he brought the bodies of his wife and 4-year-old daughter to the cemetery. 

The government appealed for international aid and said it would waive visa requirements for foreign relief workers. 

for full story: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,106765,00.html

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YSICJ Earla

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