Sipa Press for Time
21 June, 1990
A woman holds her dead grandson. In the night of 20-21 June, a severe earthquake hit the fertile northern Iranian provinces of Zanjan and Gilan, leaving more than 50,000 dead and 500,000 homeless.
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