The Press and Journal (Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire)

Iran earthquake buildings probe

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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has launched an investigat­ion into why government housing built by his predecesso­r collapsed while others withstood an earthquake near the border with Iraq that killed hundreds of people. In the town of Sarpol-e-Zahab, which was reconstruc­ted since the 1980s war with Iraq, the outer walls of building complexes tumbled away in Sunday night’s quake.

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