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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.  Iranian state news said on Monday that most of the casualties are from the border town of Sarpol-e-Zahab in Kermanshah province. A further 1,686 people have been injured, and the emegency services warned the toll was likely to increase as they gained access to more remote mountainous areas. A total of fourteen provinces have been affected across the country. 
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.  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.  Dozens of buildings and the only hospital in the town of 30,000 people was also badly 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.  Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has offered his condolences and three days of mourning have been announced in Kermanshah. 
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.  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. 
More follows… Turkey, despite recent tensions over the Kurdish Regional Government's (KRG) controversial independence referendum, said on Monday it would send aid including tents, beds, heaters and food to help alleviate the situation, expressing "deep sadness" at the loss of life. 
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 west as the Mediterranean and as far south as Baghdad. 
"I was sitting with my kids having dinner and suddenly the building was just dancing in the air," Majida Ameer, who ran out of her Baghdad home, told Reuters. 
"I thought at first that it was a huge bomb. But then I heard everyone around me screaming: 'Earthquake!'"
Iran, which sits on several geological fault lines, is prone to earthquakes. A magnitude 6.6 quake in 2003 killed 26,000 in the city of Bam.