Soviet quake toll hits 100 - 45 villages destroyed

From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: May 1, 1991| Author: | Copyright information

MOSCOW As rescue teams dug bare-handed through the ruins of villages in Soviet Georgia Tuesday, the known death toll mounted to 100 following a powerful earthquake that rocked the northern Caucasus mountains.

Forty-five villages were destroyed by Monday's earthquake, including one that was "totally buried," Georgian officials said. An estimated 500 people were injured and 80,000 left homeless.

"We were surprised that with so many villages destroyed, so few people were killed," said Archil Kostava, prefect of the Georgian city of Kutaisi, near the center of the earthquake zone. "But it ...

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