Iranian football star to build new village for Kermanshah quake survivors
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Loading...Rudaw – ERBIL, Ali Daei, a famous Iranian former football player, will build a new village for earthquake-affected people in Kermanshah, according to state media.
“This village will constitute 70 to 80 households and all the cost of construction will be paid from the donations collected by Ali Daei. This famous football player of our country is in Kermanshah to choose the place and start building the village,” Houshang Bazwand, the governor of Kermanshah, told IRNA news agency.
Last year’s earthquake struck the Kurdish areas along the Iran-Iraq border. The epicenter was at Sarpol-e Zahab town in Kermanshah, where more than 620 people died and up to 12,000 were injured. It was the world’s deadliest earthquake of 2017.
After the earthquake, several Iranian celebrities announced fund-raising campaigns, asking people to send their financial donations to earthquake-affected people in Kermanshah.
