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About 10 people died in Sunday’s earthquake in the Soviet Central Asian republic of Tadzhikistan, a journalist from the republic’s official daily, Kommunista Tadzhikstana, said. Contacted by telephone from Moscow, she said that damage in the three cities hit by the quake was slight. No official casualty figures have been disclosed after what was believed to be the country’s strongest quake in almost a decade.
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