Quake Toll in Iran Passes 20,000 as Aid Trickles In
Posted by cradle at December 28, 2003 06:12 PMThe modern brick home that collapsed on Jamileh Hossainzadeh was only a year old. "I had no chance to think about anything," she said. "Suddenly the house went up in the air and fell to the ground."
Her brother pulled her from the wreckage. "He's an engineer and he paid a lot to build a house that would withstand earthquakes," she said. "In that house only one flowerpot fell to the ground."