Iran doctors struggle with quake injuries
By Yeganeh Torbati in Dubai | China Daily | Updated: 2012-08-14 08:12
Iranians mourn over the covered bodies of loved ones killed in twin earthquakes that hit northwestern Iran in the village Baje-Baj, near the town of Varzaqan, on Monday. Atta Kenare / Agence France-Presse |
Overcrowded hospitals in northwest Iran struggled to cope on Monday with thousands injured by a pair of powerful earthquakes that killed at least 306 people and wrecked scores of villages.
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