Number of injured in 6.3 magnitude Iran earthquake grows
11:19, 26 November 2018
YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 26, ARMENPRESS. The number of people injured in the November 25 earthquake near the Iran-Iraq border has risen to 634, TASS reported.
Most of the injured were hospitalized.
The 6.3 magnitude earthquake occurred on November 25 near the Iran-Iraq border. Shocks were registered at 16:37 local time.
According to Tehran’s Institute of Geophysics, the quake struck 17 km west of the city of Sarpol-e-Zahab, 18 km from Qasr-e Shirin and 33 km from the city of Gilan-e-Gharb in Kermanshah province.
Edited and translated by Aneta Harutyunyan