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Nicaraguan Red Cross officials noted that their estimates of more than 1000 dead did not include reports from Esteli. They reported the death toll was high in Esteli and many more Nicaraguans were also wounded in that city...
More ominous are reports from citizen groups emphasizing the dioxin's human toll. Friends of the Earth, an environmental group based in Washington, D.C., has collected over 500 cases of injury which occurred after spraying. Many involve dizziness, nausea and skin diseases, symptoms of dioxin exposure. In most cases, their problems ceased when the affected individuals left the sprayed areas...
Rescue workers in Iran said yesterday they feared the official death toll would exceed 15,000 because they have not yet received reports from remote areas of the country, where thousands are believed buried under the rubble. Officials added many people may be trapped alive in the ruins...
...addition to the damage inflicted on Tabas, Iranian officials said yesterday the earthquake destroyed at least 80 per cent of the town of Firdaus, about 100 miles east of Tabas. The officials could not estimate the death toll in Firdaus...
There are no reliable reports on casualties in the fighting which erupted throughout the country September 9, but those who visited the recaptured cities say the toll was high. Residents of the towns reported the national guard was executing people suspected of being snipers...