Red Crescent: Rescue tough in desolate villages

April 16, 2013 18:33

Iran's Red Crescent said it was facing a "complicated emergency situation" in the area with villages scattered over desolate hills and valleys. Iran's semiofficial ISNA news agency and others described the quake, measured at least magnitude 7.7, as the strongest quake in more than 50 years.

It also was the second deadly quake to hit Iran in less than a week after a magnitude 6.1 temblor struck near Bushehr, on Iran's Persian Gulf coast, killing 40 people and raising calls for greater international safety inspectors at Iran's lone nuclear reactor nearby. -- ABC News

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