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/ 28 December 2003

Quake rescue workers downbeat

Rescue workers were downbeat on Sunday about finding survivors in the rubble of Bam, two days after a devastating earthquake destroyed 70% of the southeast Iranian town of 100 000 people with tens of thousands feared dead. The Iranian interior minister said the hope of finding survivors is ”very small”.

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/ 29 March 2002

Bam earthquake toll revised to 26 271

The earthquake that devastated the southeast Iranian city of Bam on December 26 killed 26 271 people, according to a new and dramatically lower death toll announced on Monday by the Islamic republic’s official statistics centre. The previous official toll from the quake had stood at 43 000 dead.