Gallery›Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library›Anguish--Rescue workers and citizens of Kakhk, a village 450 miles east of Tehran, Iran, express their grief yesterday amid the ruins of earthquake-leveled dwellings. Kakhk is believed to be near the center of the earthquake, which struck Saturday. At least 6,000 of the village population of 7,000 are dead. Officials estimate the total death toll at 11,000.
Anguish--Rescue workers and citizens of Kakhk, a village 450 miles east of Tehran, Iran, express their grief yesterday amid the ruins of earthquake-leveled dwellings. Kakhk is believed to be near the center of the earthquake, which struck Saturday. At least 6,000 of the village population of 7,000 are dead. Officials estimate the total death toll at 11,000.
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Anguish--Rescue workers and citizens of Kakhk, a village 450 miles east of Tehran, Iran, express their grief yesterday amid the ruins of earthquake-leveled dwellings. Kakhk is believed to be near the center of the earthquake, which struck Saturday. At least 6,000 of the village population of 7,000 are dead. Officials estimate the total death toll at 11,000.

Associated Press · [ca. September 1968]

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