Baurzhan Iskakov, the Almaty city director of the department for emergency situations, said there are agreements between the two countries that call mutual assistance in case of natural disasters.
The magnitude 7.0 earthquak hit on December 26 in Kyrgyzstan's northeastern Kochkor region, not far from the Kazakh border, damaging several thousand homes and other buildings.
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Posted December 29th, 2006 by Dinka
