BULGARIAN EARTHQUAKE
TWENTY SHOCKS CIRPAN UNINHABITABLE. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. SOFIA, April 15. There were altogether twenty shocks. The area affected consisted of twenty kilometres around Cirpan, with a total population of 120,000. Fortunately it was a holiday, and the majority ol the people were out ol doors when tho buildings fell. Cirpan is now uninhabitable. Every building has been damaged. Patients were miraculously rescued from the collapsed hospital. Three-quarters of tho buildings in Borisovgrad were damaged, and several villages were razed to the ground, feoldiers arc carrying out rescue work. The people are camping in the open.— Australian Press Association.
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Evening Star, Issue 19843, 17 April 1928, Page 4
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