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| Iran-Iraq earthquake: 328 people dead from devastating quake in border region | Iran-Iraq earthquake: 328 people dead from devastating quake in border region |
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| The number of people killed in an earthquake that struck Iran's western province has risen to 328, an official has said. | The number of people killed in an earthquake that struck Iran's western province has risen to 328, an official has said. |
| Iranian state news said on Monday that most of the casualties are from the town of Sarpol-e-Zahab in Kermanshah province. A further 1,686 people have been injured. | |
| Rescue workers continued to search for survivors among the rubble of damaged homes throughout the day and the health ministry put out a call for emergency blood donations. | |
| The only hospital in the town of 30,000 was also damaged by the tremors. | |
| In Iraq, interior ministry spokesperson Brigadier General Saad Maan, said seven people had died and 321 people were injured on the Iraqi side of the border in Iraq's self-ruled northern Kurdish region. | |
| The magnitude 7.3 quake was centered 19 miles (31 kilometres) outside the eastern Iraqi city of Halabja, the US Geological Survey said. It struck at a relatively shallow depth of 14.4 miles (23.2 kilometres), which usually leads to broader surface-level damage, and tremors recorded as far away as the Mediterranean coast. | |
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