Aftermath of Iranian earthquake in Ahar

01/25

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Posters of Iranian Supreme leader Ayatollah Khameneyi and former supreme leader, Ayatollah Khomeini installed on a villager's refrigerator especially for Ayatollah Khameneyi's visit to the earthquake-hit villages.

02/25

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A poster of former Iranian Supreme leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, on the ground of a market in the town of Varzaqan after the earthquake.

03/25

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A family seen looking for their home's belongings amongst the rubble of their destroyed home following the earthquake in Zang Abad village.

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Two horses in Zang Abad Village, near Varzaqan.

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A volunteer helps children affected by the earthquake by giving them fresh milk at Gamsh Abad, near Ahar.

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Children playing among the tents and camp at Zang Abad, Varzaqan.

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Baby diapers, which people brought directly from Tabriz to provide help to those with small children at Zang Abad, Varzaqan.

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Villagers in Gamsh Abad, pictured trying to make a toilet area in their camp beside their destroyed village.

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A man pictured standing amongst the rubble of his destroyed home in Pir-e Yusefian village near Varzaqan.

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A view of a temporary camp set up for villagers whose homes have been destroyed in the earthquake.

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A woman in Pir-e Yusefian village near Varzaqan goes to bring water for her family who are now having to live in a tent after the earthquake demolished her home.

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Volunteers from an NGO seen a filling a truck with boxes of milk that has been gifted by a benefactor for residents of the destroyed villages in the earthquake hit zone of Ahar.

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Villagers are living in tents after an earthquake hit their village near Ahar. The villagers homes have to be rebuilt again quickly, because the area is mountainous and will soon be cold.

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A car damaged in a village near Ahar.

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A girl in Gamsh Abad village ,Ahar, pictured after she received new slippers and clothes from benefactors helping in the aid relief efforts.

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A benefactor distributes clothes and other goods between villagers affected by the earthquakes that hit the area killing as many as 250 and flattening homes.

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A villager pictured putting up fences to protect his herd of sheep.

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Village girls in Gamsh Abad village, near Ahar.

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Villagers and their tent in a village near Ahar. More than 25 people have reportedly caught Cholera from contaminated water.

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A family are forced to live in a tent after their home was demolished in a village near Ahar.

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A three year-old boy pictured in a destroyed village near Ahar.

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Volunteer doctors pictured as they help injured people in Pir-e Yusefian village, Varzaqan.

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A clock on the wall a damaged home in Pir-e Yusefian village, Varzaqan, which has stopped at the exact time of the first earthquake. The second earthquake occurred 11 minutes later.

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Villagers tents and their destroyed home pictured in Pir-e Yusefian village, Varzaqan.

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Life goes on, even after earthquake for the villagers of Gamsh Abad, Ahar.

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Villagers in the Ahar area are forced to live in tents and continue struggling to retrieve personal possessions from the rubble, days after two strong earthquakes left at least 250 people dead and more than 2,000 injured.