Iran quake injures more than 500 people
Gulf Times
"The quake that hit at a depth of 10 kilometres (6.2 miles) in West Azerbaijan province has injured 528 people, 135 of whom have been admitted to hospital," the region's governor Mohammad Sadegh Motamedian told state television.
A 5.4 magnitude earthquake in northwestern Iran injured more than 500 people early Wednesday, most of them lightly, state media reported.
"The quake that hit at a depth of 10 kilometres (6.2 miles) in West Azerbaijan province has injured 528 people, 135 of whom have been admitted to hospital," the region's governor Mohammad Sadegh Motamedian told state television.
The quake and its aftershocks "damaged 500 houses, completely destroying 50 of them, in 12 affected villages," he added.
State television aired footage of stores damaged and homes destroyed in the 3:30 am (0000 GMT) quake.
