Rescuers dig out last bodies from Iran quake

Mohammad Taheri fainted when his mother’s body was unearthed today, one of the victims of an earthquake in Iran that destroyed about 100 villages and killed 220 people.

Rescuers in Changooreh, among the worst hit of the northwestern villages rocked by Saturday’s magnitude-six quake, had dug up at least 140 bodies from the debris by early today.