posted on May, 21 2003 @ 10:44 PM
Chaos, Rubble in Algerian City After Quake
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� Algiers Quake Kills Up to 250, Radio Says (Associated Press, May 21, 2003)
� Algeria Quake Kills Up to 250, Radio Says (Associated Press, May 21, 2003)
� Algeria Quake Kills Up to 250, Radio Says (Associated Press, May 21, 2003)
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Reuters
Wednesday, May 21, 2003; 8:15 PM
By Hamid Ould Ahmed
ROUIBA, Algeria (Reuters) - Shocked residents in the Algerian city of Rouiba hunted frantically for loved ones through the night Thursday amid the
rubble of an earthquake that devastated their homes.
Families, many of them crying, thronged the streets of the town east of the capital Algiers where more than 100 were confirmed dead -- state media put
the provisional death toll from Wednesday evening's tremor at at least 250.
"It is catastrophic. I have never seen such a disaster in my life. Everything has collapsed," Yazid Khelfaoui, who lost his mother in the quake,
told Reuters in Rouiba, rubble all around him. The apartment building he lived in has collapsed.
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