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Iranian troops engaged in digging out bodies of quake victims
ARDAKUL. Iran. May 14: Anxious to prevent the outbreak of disease, soldiers digging out the victims of the weekend's earthquake hoisted bodies onto stretchers and put them in a pile for burial in mass graves, reports AP.
In grief, the parents of a 12-year-old girl rushed forward to stop the soldiers.
"God took her life. At least give me back the body." said the girl's father, Abbas Rastgou-Ne-Jad, whose black pants and jacket were white with dust from digging through the brick, mud and concrete of his crumbled village.
The soldiers relented. Moments later they found her 8-year-old brother. The family took the children's bodies to the stream to wash for burial, according to Muslim traditions.
Guided by the smell of decaying bodies, anguished villagers and soldiers wearing scarves across their faces pressed forward Tuesday with the task of recovering the dead from Saturday's 7.1 magnitude quake. Against all odds, some still hoped to find survivors.
Soldiers used bulldozers and spades. Others dug through bricks that once were their homes, some with bare, bleeding hands. A 10-year-old boy joined the digging with his toy shovel.
Rescue workers in the village of Hajiabad uncovered a broken wall clock that had stopped at 12:28, when the earthquake struck early Saturday.
Rasul Zargar, Iran's top official for natural disaster relief, dismissed previous government estimates that 2,400 were
killed, saying Tuesday that 1,560 had died. His figure was based on surveys of Iranian aid workers who have reached damaged villages in northeastern Iran.
The quake smashed the mud houses scattered through this farming region near the Afghan border. More than 4,460 people were injured and 60,000 left homeless, the Iranian Red Crescent Society said Tuesday, adding that not all villages had been reached yet.
In Ardakul, where almost a third of the village’s 1,600 residents were killed in Saturday's earthquake, a 12-year-old girl picked through the wreckage. "We have lost everything," said Fatima Yari.
Still, her 3-year-old sister, Mehri, survived the earthquake
when blankets and mattresses fell on top of her as the roof of their home collapsed.
Other residents, worried about the bodies of missing relatives, urged soldiers not to use bulldozers, which earlier tore apart the remains of a young boy and girl. Muslims believe a body should be returned to God as it came into the world — whole.
Since Saturday. 195 aftershocks have rattled the stricken region. A magnitude-4.8 tremor struck Monday night near Qaen, one of the hardest-hit towns. But the official Islamic Republic News Agency said there were no reports of casualties or damage.
Near-freezing temperatures at night have made survivors miserable. Planeloads of tents, blankets and food finally ar-
rived Tuesday from neighbor-acountries, including the oil-Arab Gulf.
The Red Cross in Geneva said dlrs 5 million was donated in one day for the victims, one of their biggest and quickest responses to an appeal.
The deal comes less than two weeks after FAI Insurances ditched a partnership with Alpic to enter the Indian general Insurance market.
FAI dissolved its Joint-venture with Alpic on May 2 after becoming increasingly frustrated that the Indian government was delaying moves to privatize the highly unionized Indian Insurance sector.
MMI's general manager of international operations, Angus Maciver. said the group had pursued the deal with Alpic for more than six months but only
reached agreement after FAI decided to terminate its arrangement.
'Bo far. all the Indian government has said is that it will allow applications for licenses to write health insurance business in India and we still don't know yet what shareholding each company will be permitted to hold," he said.
Respective shareholdings in the proposed joint venture hinge on Indian foreign investment guidelines.
Maciver said the initial focus of the Joint venture would be health insurance. Including personal, accident and illness cover. But it would eventually be extended to cover workers compensation and other areas of the general insurance market.