5 hours agoEarthquake on the Iraqi-Iran border, over 330 dead.
Periskopi(9 years ago)
(9 years ago)The 7.3-magnified earthquake that rocked the border zone between Iran and Iraq has caused the deaths of at least 339 people and the injuries of 2,800 others. Iranian authorities have already declared that another 70 thousand people need housing. Most of the victims are from the western province of Iran, Kermanshah, while 11 others lost [...]
The 7.3-magnified earthquake that rocked the border zone between Iran and Iraq has caused the deaths of at least 339 people and the injuries of 2,800 others.
Iranian authorities have already declared that another 70 thousand people need housing.
Most of the victims are from Iran's western province of Kermanshah, while 11 others lost their lives in Iraq, where people abandoned their homes and took to the streets of Baghdad's capital.
I sat down to have dinner with my children when suddenly the building began to sway. At first I thought it was a bomb, but then I heard people screaming, earthquake”, Maida Ameer, mother of three.
Iranian news agency “Isna” reports that 2,530 people are left injured, while most of the victims are from Sarpol and Zahab, about 15km from the border.
The city's main hospital suffered considerable material damage, making it difficult to treat several hundred injured.
While many houses in the mountainous area have been built with mud and bricks and are threatened with collapse if an earthquake like Sunday's quake is confirmed again.
