More than 300 dead in Iran-Iraq border quake
TEHRAN: The death toll of a major earthquake that hit the Iran- Iraq border overnight rose to 328 dead on the Iranian side of the border on Monday, the coro
At least another 2,530 were injured in the 7.3-magnitude quake that hit late Sunday (Monday in Manila), state television reported toll stood at 207 dead and 1,700 wounded.
The quake hit 30 kilometers (19 miles) southwest of Halabja in Iraqi Kurdistan at around 9.20 pm (1820 GMT) on Sunday, when many people would have been at home,
On Monday morning, Iran gave a provisional toll of more than 200 dead, while only six others were reported killed on the Iraq side of the border.
“There are 207 dead and around 1,700 injured”, all in Iran’s prov Saidi, the deputy head of the Ira up to handle the response to the quake, told state television.
Mojtaba Nikkerdar, the deputy governor of Kermanshah, said authorities there were “in the pro
Pir Hossein Koolivand said it was been landslides.” People including rescue personnel conduct search and rescue work following a 7.3-magnitude earthquake at Sarpol-e Zahab in Iran’s Kermanshah province on Monday.
said 30 Red Cross teams had been sent to the quake zone, parts of
had killed six people in the north injured around 150.
Footage posted on Twitter building in Sulaimaniyah, as windows shattered at the moment the the nearby town of Darbandikhan
In Sulaimaniyah, residents ran out onto the streets and some damage to property was reported, there said.
“Four people were killed by the earthquake” in Darbandikhan, the town’s mayor Nasseh Moulla Hassan told
the town about 70 kilometers (40 miles) south of Darbandikhan, and 105 people injured.
Residents flee homes in Turkey
- tively shallow depth of 25 kilome
On the Iranian side of the border, the tremor shook several
It was also felt in southeastern Turkey, “from Malatya to Van”, an - dent said. In the town of Diyarbakir, residents were reported to have
1,500-kilometer fault line between plates, a belt extending through western Iran and into northeastern Iraq.