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# Spain Prime Minister mourns earthquake victims
## Spanish premier Jose Luis Rodriquez Zapatero tours the earthquake hit town
of Lorca and attends a funeral service for victims of Wednesday's disaster.
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Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriquez Zapatero, Crown Prince Felipe and his wife
Letizia attended the service held in a large hangar used for agricultural
fairs on the outskirts of the stricken town in the Murcia region of
southeastern Spain.
Several thousand townsfolk joined the families of four of the victims killed
by falling masonry when an earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale
struck Lorca on Wednesday evening.
The families of the other five dead chose instead to hold private funerals.
The funeral service, led by the Bishop of Cartagena and televised live to the
nation, took place in the Recinto Ferial because tremor damage had left all
the town's churches too unsafe to enter.
Ahead of the funeral the Spanish premier toured the worst affected zones of
the town to survey the damage.
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Pledging to give local authorities all the support and financial aid needed,
he said: "The earthquake was hard and strong. But this country is stronger.
Its desire for solidarity and reconstruction are stronger."
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