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90 killed in Iran quake
Sunday August 12, 2012 11:33:49 AM,
RIA Novosti
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Moscow: At
least 90 people were killed after an earthquake hit northwestern
Iran Saturday, the Fars news agency reported.
Two powerful tremors measuring 6.4 and 6.3 on the Richter scale
struck Saturday near the towns of Tabriz and Ahar with their
epicentres registered at a depth of 9.8 km, according to the US
Geological Survey.
"Our access to villages have been cut and we can only contact them
by radio transceiver," Mahmoud Mozaffar, head of the Iranian
Rescue and Relief Organisation, told the Mehr news agency.
He said helicopters and rescuers were on their way to villages.
The quakes were also registered in neighbouring Azerbaijan but no
casualties were reported.
The deadliest quake in Iran was in June 1990, which measured 7.7
points on the Richter scale. About 37,000 people were killed and
more than 100,000 injured in the northern provinces of Gilan and
Zanjan. The quake devastated 27 towns and about 1,870 villages,
according to IRNA news agency.
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