World : Aftershock Kills 6 in Armenia
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MOSCOW — A powerful aftershock rattled the quake-devastated Armenian city of Leninakan on New Year’s Eve, killing at least six people and briefly disrupting relief efforts, a spokesman for the official Armenian Press Agency said today.
A. K. Shakhnazarov, deputy director of the agency based in the Armenian capital of Yerevan, also said there appears to be no substance to a French radio report that 17 people had been found still alive in the town of Spitak on New Year’s Eve, more than three weeks after the Dec. 7 earthquake.
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