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Thousands of others are injured in the strong earthquake, the world's deadliest so far this year.
BBC News:
A 7.3-magnitude earthquake has shaken the northern border region between Iran and Iraq, killing at least 396 people and injuring thousands more.
More than 7,000 people are also said to have been injured in the quake, the world’s deadliest this year.
Most of those who died were in Iran’s western Kermanshah province, where a search for survivors has started.
Nine more people died in Iraq, where residents fled from their homes into the streets in the capital, Baghdad.
“I was sitting with my kids having dinner and suddenly the building was just dancing in the air,” a Baghdad resident, Majida Ameer, told Reuters news agency.
“I thought at first that it was a huge bomb. But then I heard everyone around me screaming: ‘Earthquake!’”
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In the latest updates from Iran:
State news agency Irna quoted an emergency official as saying 6,603 people were injured in Iran alone
Most of the victims were in the town of Sarpol-e Zahab, about 15km (10 miles) from the border, emergency services chief Pir Hossein Koolivand said
The town’s main hospital was severely damaged, leaving it struggling to treat hundreds of wounded, state TV reported
A woman and her baby were pulled alive from rubble in the town, Iranian media said
One aid agency said 70,000 people needed shelter after the quake.
Many homes in the predominantly Kurdish mountainous area are made of mud bricks and are vulnerable in quakes as large as Sunday’s.
Monday’s picture: a travel to Pasargadae, Iran [gallery]
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Once capital of the Achaemenid Empire, the city of Pasargadae was constructed under the reign of Cyrus the Great (559–530 BC). Located in ancient Persia, near the city of Shiraz, it is today one of Iran’s UNESCO World Heritage Sites…
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