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Iran quake survivor dies

11 janvier 2004, 20:00

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A 56-year-old man dug out alive from the rubble of the earthquake-hit Iranian city of Bam after 13 days has died, a medic says.

Medics had a dim view of Jalil?s chances when he was clawed out from under shattered mud-bricks by rescue workers who found his emaciated body shielded by a wardrobe on Wednesday afternoon. He soon fell into a coma.

?He died at 2 am this morning? he died while still in a coma,? Mehdi Shadnoush, part of a Ukrainian-Iranian medical team, told Reuters from Bam yesterday.

The ancient citadel city of Bam was flattened by an earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale before dawn on December 26. More than 30,000 people were killed.

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