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Iran Protest Death Toll Could Top 30,000
(TIME) Kay Armin Serjoie - As many as 30,000 people could have been killed in the streets of Iran on Jan. 8 and 9, two senior officials of the country's Ministry of Health told TIME. Stocks of body bags were exhausted, the officials said, and semi-trailers replaced ambulances. The Health Ministry's two-day figure aligns with a count of 30,304 gathered by physicians and first responders and also shared with TIME. That number does not reflect protest-related deaths of people registered at military hospitals or that happened in unreported locales. Les Roberts, a professor at Columbia University who specializes in the epidemiology of violent death, said "the 30,000 verified deaths are almost certainly an underestimate."