Photos: 7.3 magnitude earthquake on Iran-Iraq border kills over 300

A magnitude 7.3 earthquake hit the region around the border between Iran and Iraq on Sunday, killing at least 300people state media in the two countries said, and injuring over 2,500.

Updated on: Nov 13, 2017 2:40 PM IST

News

Share via

• 
• 
• 
• 

Copy link

• 

1/8

View Photos in a new improved layout

Updated on Nov 13, 2017 2:40 PM

Survivors warm themselves in front of destroyed buildings after an earthquake at the city of Sarpol-e-Zahab in western Iran. A powerful earthquake shook the Iran-Iraq border, killing more than 300 people and injuring over 2,500 in the mountainous region of Iran alone, state media there said. Some 50 aftershocks have followed. Baghdad did not immediately release information about damage or casualties in Iraq. (Pouria Pakizeh / ISNA via AP)

2/8

View Photos in a new improved layout

Updated on Nov 13, 2017 2:40 PM

A wounded boy is treated by members of the Red Crescent following a quake in Sarpol-e Zahab, which reorded the highest casualties in Kermanshah, Iran. The Students News agency ISNA quoted the coroner’s office in the province as saying that the death toll was expected to increase. (Tasnim News Agency / REUTERS)

3/8

View Photos in a new improved layout

Updated on Nov 13, 2017 2:40 PM

A woman reacts next to a dead body following an earthquake in Sarpol-e Zahab in Kermanshah, Iran. The 7.3-magnitude quake was centered 31 kms outside the eastern Iraqi city of Halabja yesterday, according to measurements from the US Geological Survey. Its impact was felt as far west as the Mediterranean coast with worst damage appearing to be in Iran’s western Kermanshah province, which sits in the Zagros Mountains dividing Iran and Iraq. (Tasnim News Agency / Handout via REUTERS )

4/8

View Photos in a new improved layout

Updated on Nov 13, 2017 2:40 PM

A damaged storefront is seen after the earthquake on November 12, 2017 in Halabja, Iraq. The Iranian state-run IRNA news agency said rescue work was continuing overnight and would accelerate during the daytime. Kurdish health officials also said at least four people were killed in Iraq and at least 50 injured. (Osama Golpy / Rudaw / Social Media via REUTERS)

5/8

View Photos in a new improved layout

Updated on Nov 13, 2017 2:40 PM

People stand in the street after evacuating from aftershocks by the earthquake in Baghdad, Iraq. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei offered his condolences this morning and urged rescuers and all government agencies to do all they could to help those affected, state media reported. (Hadi Mizban / AP)

6/8

View Photos in a new improved layout

Updated on Nov 13, 2017 2:40 PM

A car lays smashed by debris from the earthquake at the city of Sarpol-e-Zahab in western Iran, on November 13, 2017. The head of Iranian Red Crescent said more than 70,000 people were in need of emergency shelter. The Iranian armed forces have been deployed to help the emergency services. (Pouria Pakizeh / ISNA via AP)

7/8

View Photos in a new improved layout

Updated on Nov 13, 2017 2:40 PM

People receive treatment following an earthquake in Sarpol-e Zahab county in Kermanshah, Iran November 13, 2017. The main hospital of the capital of the county was severely damaged and could not treat hundreds of injured people who were taken there, the head of the Iranian emergency services, Pirhossein Koulivand said. (Tasnim News Agency / Handout via REUTERS )

8/8

View Photos in a new improved layout

Updated on Nov 13, 2017 2:40 PM

People gather in the street after aftershocks were felt in Baghdad, Iraq. Turkish Red Crescent Chairman Kerem Kinik in a tweet, said the Turkish Red Crescent was gathering 3,000 tents and heaters, 10,000 beds and blankets and moving them towards the Iraqi border. “We are coordinating with Iranian and Iraqi Red Crescent groups. We are also getting prepared to make deliveries from our northern Iraq Erbil depot,” he said. (Hadi Mizban / AP)