Survivors Removed From Destroyed Town

Four months after an earthquake devastated their little oil town in Russia’s Far East, the last survivors have been evacuated from the ruins of Neftegorsk.

The ITAR-Tass news agency said authorities moved the 30 people who had stayed at the site since the May 28 quake to other towns on Sakhalin Island.

The 7.5-magnitude quake so devastated Neftegorsk, home to about 3,000 people, that officials declared the town dead, cleared the rubble and planted trees there.

More than 1,800 people died in the earthquake. Hundreds of people evacuated shortly afterwards are still in shelters waiting for the government to find them new homes.