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Sunday, 23 June, 2002, 09:39 GMT 10:39 UK
In pictures: Iran quake rescue efforts
Rescuers are sifting through the rubble of villages in north-western Iran destroyed by Saturday's earthquake.

Villagers dig for survivors
The hunt for survivors continues, by hand...

A bulldozer is brought in to move wreckage
...and with machinery

Red Crescent dog searches through the rubble
Dogs are being brought in to search through the rubble

A boy is carried alive from the rubble
Occasionally, survivors are found

Soldiers carry a body from a wrecked house
But many bodies are also being recovered

A man outside his wrecked home
Thousands have lost their homes

Man mourns dead relative
Many others have lost much more

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