Iran Fears Quake Toll Could Hit 40,000
AP reports, "Relatives and rescuers used everything from bare hands to bulldozers Saturday to retrieve victims of a powerful earthquake...The destruction was so all-encompassing that a reliable death toll in the city of 80,000 was still unavailable. Most people were asleep when the earthquake, which the U.S. Geological Survey measured at magnitude 6.6, struck at 5:28 a.m. Friday. The Interior Ministry estimated the death toll at 20,000 but officials in the region said it could be double that amount." :: Submitted for your Quake (Matthew 24:7) files.