Destroyed bicycles are seen amid the rubble of the Iranian city of Bam, Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2003. Some 28,000 bodies have been pulled from the rubble of the devastated city.
An Iranian man mourns over his mother's body, which is wrapped in a white shroud, in Bam, Iran, Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2003. Some 28,000 bodies have been pulled from the rubble of the earthquake-devastated city. At Bam's cemetery, where thousands have already been buried, workers dug 130-foot trenches for corpses wrapped in white shrouds.
A female Iranian doctor, left, treats Ali Jasemine, a 15-year-old boy rescued from the rubble of his collapsed house with his left leg broken twice and several other injuries, at the Imam Khomeini hospital in the earthquake-devastated city of Bam, Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2003. An earthquake Friday reduced the town of Bam to rubble, killing more than 25,000 people.
A clock, stopped at the time of last week's devastating earthquake in the Iranian city of Bam, lies in the rubble of a collapsed house on Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2003.
An exhausted woman sits in front of the international rescue workers camp in Bam, Iran, Tuesday, Dec 30, 2003. The death toll from Friday's earthquake that shook Bam has risen to 28,000, said the coordinator of U.N. relief operations Ted Peran.
This is a satelite image of the city of Bam, located about 620 miles southeast of Tehran, Iran, as seen on Dec. 27, 2003, the day after a 6.6-magnitude quake shook the city. Seen in the center, is the destoyed citadel, a medieval fortress that attracted thousands of tourists a year.
Russian rescue team members search for survivors under the rubble, in the ancient city of Bam. Rescue workers from around the world joined Iranians Sunday in searching through powdery debris that left little room for air pockets, which could allow people to survive while awaiting help.
Iranian soldiers unload aid for earthquake victims, including cooking stoves from an Ukrainian Cargo plane at Kerman airport southeast of Bam, Monday Dec. 29, 2003.
Russian rescue team members with their dog search for survivors under the rubble, in the ancient city of Bam, where a massive earthquake hit, about 630 miles southeast of the capital Tehran, Iran.
An Iranian Red Crescent staff comforts a girl who was injured in last Friday's earthquake before she is taken aboard a plane at Kerman airport to be flown elsewhere for medical treatment Monday Dec. 29, 2003.
Iran's Red Crescent members walk with their dogs through the rubble of the earthquake in Bam, an ancient city about 630 miles southeast of Tehran, on Saturday Dec. 27, 2003.
An Iranian woman weeps in front of a building which was destroyed in the massive earthquake.
Two men sit near their destroyed home.
Iranian soldiers search for bodies in the rubble.
Remains of collapsed houses can be seen in this aerial image of Bam.
Bodies lie on the ground, covered by blankets, as Mohammed Karimi carries the body of his daughter Nazanine, 4, who died in the earthquake.
A car carries away bodies of people killed in the earthquake.
A street of demolished buildings.
An Iranian woman reacts to the destruction of the earthquake.
The 2,000-year-old medieval fortress of Bam, which was destroyed in the earthquake.