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| | NewsFromRussia.Com Iranian disaster: deaths and destroying |
 | | The quake struck near Zarand, just 125 miles from Bam, where a 6.6-magnitude quake on Dec. 26, 2003, killed at least 26,000 people, injured another 30,000 and destroyed 85 percent of buildings. |
 | | The governor of Zarand, a city of about 135,000 people in Kerman province, said his city was not heavily damaged. |
 | | Zarand, about 740 kilometers (460 miles) southeast of Tehran, is about 125 miles from Bam, where a 6.6-magnitude quake on December 26, 2003, killed more than 30,000 people, injured another 30,000 and destroyed 85 percent of buildings More details... |
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