Georgia Earthquake Kills Six

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Georgia Earthquake Kills Six

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Residents of Georgia's capital swept rubble-strewn streets and floors covered in fallen plaster Friday after a strong earthquake that killed at least six people and rattled this troubled ex-Soviet nation.

Dozens of people remained hospitalized with injuries after the Thursday night earthquake, emergency officials said.

Thousands of Tbilisi residents spent the night outside, rocking their children to sleep on park benches because they were too scared to return to dilapidated Soviet-era apartment buildings. Two minor aftershocks were registered overnight, and residents felt many more during the day.

Electricity and telephone service, including mobile connections, remained off in many districts. Russia's NTV television reported that doctors could start treating patients in the intensive care unit of one Tbilisi hospital only after one of the patients' relatives brought an electric generator.

Two women and an 18-year-old man were killed Thursday night when the wall of a house collapsed on them, Tamaz Chogovadze, spokesman for the Interior Ministry's emergencies department, said Friday.

Another woman died from injuries sustained when she jumped out of a window in panic, and one person died of a heart attack apparently prompted by the earthquake, the Interior Ministry said. There were no details of the cause of death for the sixth victim.

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