40,000 in Argentina Homeless After Quake
From Reuters
GENEVA —
About 40,000 Argentines have been left homeless by an earthquake that rocked the western city of Mendoza 10 days ago, U.N. disaster relief agency officials said Wednesday.
A Geneva spokesman for the League of Red Cross Societies said that the quake, which hit the area just east of the border with Chile shortly after midnight Jan. 26, killed six people and injured 240. It measured 5.9 on the Richter scale.
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