Two earthquakes in Iran kill 227
By The Week Staff | August 12, 2012
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wo earthquakes of magnitudes 6.4 and 6.3, which struck within 11 minutes of each other in northwest Iran, left 227 people dead and 1,380 injured. Search and rescue operations have ended, and Interior Minister Moustafa Mohammad-Najjar said that "we are now working to ensure survivors' needs in terms of shelter and food." Half of the 600 villages located in the disaster zone were damaged or destroyed.
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