• A boy rides a bicycle through the rubble of damaged buildings in the town of Sarpol-e Zahab in Iran's western Kermanshah province, near the border with Iraq, on Tuesday, following a magnitude 7.3 earthquake that left hundreds dead and thousands homeless two days earlier. | AFP-JIJI
    A boy rides a bicycle through the rubble of damaged buildings in the town of Sarpol-e Zahab in Iran's western Kermanshah province, near the border with Iraq, on Tuesday, following a magnitude 7.3 earthquake that left hundreds dead and thousands homeless two days earlier. | AFP-JIJI

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ANKARA – Exhausted and exposed to freezing cold, survivors of a weekend earthquake in western Iran begged authorities for food and shelter on Tuesday, saying aid was slow to reach them.

Iranian officials called off rescue operations earlier in the day on the grounds there was little chance of finding more survivors from the quake, which killed at least 530 people and injured thousands more. It was Iran’s deadliest earthquake in more than a decade.

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