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Magnitude-6.1 quake hits Iran, 32 killed
Wednesday April 10, 2013 09:39:28 AM,
IANS
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Tehran: At least 32
people were killed and 850 injured when an earthquake, measuring
6.1 on the Richter scale, hit Iran's Bushehr province Tuesday.
According to Iran's Seismological Centre, the city was later hit
by 13 aftershocks.
The temblor, having its epicentre at a depth of 12 km, struck Kaki
city of the province in the afternoon, Xinhua reported.
Bushehr province's governor Fereidoon Hassanvand said some 700
buildings were badly damaged.
Twenty rescue teams and several helicopters had been dispatched to
the quake-hit region from neighbouring cities and provinces,
Mahmoud Mozaffar, chief of Iran's Red Crescent Society said
earlier.
In two villages, the damaged area exceeded 80 percent, reported
semi-official Mehr news agency citing Mozaffar.
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