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Last Post 11/13/2017 9:42 AM by  nikos
Flashpoints-Current Items for Urgent Prayers: Iran-Iraq earthquake: Hundreds killed
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11/13/2017 9:42 AM
    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!'"

    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

    Read more at: http://www.bbc.com/news/w...middle-east-41963373
    Tags: , earthquake, Iraq, Baghdad, Iran, Sarpol-e Zahab
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