0
TEHRAN, Jan 4: More than 1,300 Afghans died in the December 26 earthquake that devastated the southeastern Iranian city of Bam, a top interior ministry official said on Sunday.
"We had counted 2,650 Afghans to return home, and unfortunately they more than 50 per cent of them died in the earthquake. We are in the process of finding out the exact figure," Ahmad Hosseini, head of the interior ministry's bureau of alien affairs, told state television.
Previously, officials had feared as many as 3,600 Afghans had been killed in the quake, which left around 30,000 people dead when it flattened much of the historic city.-AFP
