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Photos: Earthquake injures 700 in southern Iran
Mehr News Agency via payvand / Abdolhossein Rezvani, Mehr News Agency07-Nov-2009
Iran's state news agency says an earthquake has injured at least 700 people in the country's south. The 4.9-magnitude quake struck the southern port city of Bandar Abbas at 2:56 a.m. local time on Wednesday, cutting power and telephone lines and sending residents streaming into the streets.
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