Iran earthquake toll rises to more than 300
Los Angeles Times / By Ramin Mostaghim, Los Angeles Times
12-Aug-2012 (one comment)

TEHRAN — Iranians turned their efforts from rescue to relief Sunday after twin earthquakes that killed more than 300 people, trying to provide medical care for more than 2,000 injured and shelter and aid for thousands left homeless.

For a second night in a row, survivors of Saturday's magnitude 6.4 and 6.3 quakes in a northwestern province were advised to sleep outside for fear of continuing tremors. Bulldozers were already at work starting to clear up the rubble left from several destroyed villages.

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by yolanda on Sun Aug 12, 2012 10:29 PM PDT

"The mayor of Varzaqan, one of the hardest-hit towns, said 12 villages in the region had been destroyed. Each of those villages had up to 1,000 residents and as many as a third of those people may have been killed, he told the news service."

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One village had 1000 people, so 12 villages had 12,000 people. If one third of them were killed, the death toll should have been a whopping 4000!

I was wondering why IRI called off the search operation so quickly? Are they afraid of the truth? Are they afraid of high death toll? The high death toll will make them look bad? They seem to stop counting the dead after 300!

People will ask why IRI keeps adding more centrifuges, but does not pour in more money to earthquake-proof building structures?


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