’Quake toll conflicts
NZPA-Reutetl 'Algiers Conflicting totals are still reaching Algiers for the number of people left dead, injured or homeless by the earthquake which ravaged the city of El Asnam and the surrounding area on October 10. The first 'official? toll — announced as partial and provisional —was published on Sunday by, the national co-ordinating committee assigned to' organise relief work: 2325 bodies counted, 7725 injured, registered, and 331,216 homeless. Those figures were far lower than those furnished by the central hospital at El Asnam, which four days after the quake said that more: than 6000 people had died in the city.: Last Thursday the daily “El Moujahid" quoted official health . services in reporting 44,000, people hurt, 4000 of them serioyg cases.'■
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Press, 22 October 1980, Page 9
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