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(15 Nov 2017) Many survivors in Iran were still awaiting badly needed aid on Wednesday, three days after a powerful earthquake along the Iraq border killed more than 530 people and left thousands injured.
Desperate, some families tried to set up temporary shelters, using straw collected from nearby farms.
Many in the Kurdish town of Sarpol-e Zahab, home to half the casualties from the temblor, told The Associated Press that they still have not received aid and that they needed help to remove debris so they could try to get to their damaged homes and retrieve some essential belongings.
Reports said more than 12,000 tents were distributed in the area, though more than 30,000 houses were affected by the quake - 15,500 of them completely destroyed.
Debris removal was expected to end within the next 10 days.
The delay in getting help to the needy came as public order broke down in many instances where aid was being delivered in the Iranian Kurdish region.
Officials said families that were not affected by the quake rushed and took some of the aid supplies.
The police said they deployed forces to secure aid distribution and prevent more chaotic outbreaks.
The government on Wednesday approved loans worth the equivalent of 10,000 US dollars to help survivors in the reconstruction of their homes.
The region, which was already rebuilt in the decades since Iran's devastating 1980s war with Iraq, was hit by the magnitude 7.3 earthquake on Sunday night.
The official IRNA news agency said 530 were killed while state TV put the number at 432.
There was no explanation for the discrepancy though double-counting and unregistered burying bodies in remote villages without informing officials are common occurrences in the country.

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