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PARIS (AFP) Dec 28, 2003 Iran's main opposition group, the People's Mujahedeen, criticised Tehran's Islamic clergy leaders on Sunday for doing too little to prevent large loss of life after an earthquake struck southeastern Iran. Hopes fading for Iran quake survivors as more than 30,000 feared dead BAM, Iran (AFP) Dec 28, 2003 Hope was fading Sunday of finding many more survivors in the rubble of Bam, two days after a huge earthquake was feared to have cost more than 30,000 lives around this historic city in southeast Iran. |
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Death toll from Iran quake could exceed 30,000: Kerman governorate BAM, Iran (AFP) Dec 28, 2003 The death toll from the earthquake which struck the Bam region of southeast Iran could rise to more than 30,000, the provincial governorate said Sunday. No new US policy to Iran, despite aid to quake victims WASHINGTON (AFP) Dec 28, 2003 US aid for earthquake victims in southeastern Iran does not signal a policy shift toward the country that President George W. Bush included in his "axis of evil," a State Department spokesman said Sunday. Iran quake search operations to continue: interior ministry TEHRAN (AFP) Dec 28, 2003 The search for survivors of southeast Iran's devastating earthquake will carry on until rescue teams are certain they can find no more victims alive, the interior ministry spokesman told AFP on Sunday. Tehran ill-equiped for massive quake that threatens any moment TEHRAN (AFP) Dec 28, 2003 Iran's sprawling capital Tehran, with its population of 12 million, sits atop a high-risk quake zone, courting catastrophe if a strong earth tremor were to strike in the future, experts said Sunday. Differences set aside as world delivers quake aid to Iran GENEVA (AFP) Dec 28, 2003 The first US plane landed in its arch foe Iran on Sunday with aid for the earthquake-stricken city of Bam, as governments set aside political differences with the Islamic republic to tackle a catastrophe that left at least 20,000 dead. Bam quake cost 22,000 lives: governor's office BAM, Iran (AFP) Dec 28, 2003 The earthquake which struck the Bam region of southeast Iran cost 22,000 lives, according to the latest provisional death toll, the provincial governor's office announced Sunday. |
Syria sends 40 tonnes of aid to victims of Iran quake DAMASCUS (AFP) Dec 28, 2003 Syria has dispatched 40 tonnes of aid for the victims of the devastating earthquake in southeastern Iran that killed tens of thousands of people, Syria's health minister said in remarks published Sunday. Three killed in Iranian navy helicopter crash after quake aid delivery TEHRAN (AFP) Dec 28, 2003 Three people were killed Sunday when an Iranian navy helicopter crashed just outside Bam after delivering aid to the southeastern city devastated by an earthquake, the student news agency ISNA reported. Hopes fading for further quake survivors BAM, Iran (AFP) Dec 28, 2003 Hope was fading fast Sunday of finding many more survivors in the rubble of Bam, two days after a devastating earthquake destroyed 70 percent of the southeastern Iranian town of 100,000 people with tens of thousands feared dead. Bam airstrip the chaotic heart of disorderly international relief effort BAM, Iran (AFP) Dec 28, 2003 The whine of aircraft has never been so frequent in the mountains around Bam, nor the chaos at its airstrip so manic as it labours at the centre of an international relief effort after Friday's devastating earthquake. Injured quake victims evacuated for treatment: health ministry TEHRAN (AFP) Dec 28, 2003 Some 11,500 injured victims of the devastating Bam earthquake have been flown to hospitals around the country for treatment, a health ministry spokesman said Sunday. European aid to Iran continues despite little hope for finding quake survivors BONN, Germany (AFP) Dec 28, 2003 German, Hungarian and Danish medical and humanitarian aid was on its way to Iran on Sunday despite dwindling hopes of finding more survivors two days after an earthquake struck the southeastern Iranian city of Bam. |
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