At least 207 people were killed and hundreds more injured when a 7.3 magnitude earthquake shook the mountainous Iran-Iraq border.
More than 200 people were killed and hundreds more injured when a 7.3-magnitude earthquake shook the mountainous Iran-Iraq border triggering landslides that hindered rescue efforts, officials said on Monday.
Footage posted on Twitter showed panicked people fleeing a building in Sulaimaniyah, northern Iraq, as windows shattered at the moment the quake struck late Sunday, while images from the nearby town of Darbandikhan showed major walls and concrete structures had collapsed.
"There are 207 dead and around 1,700 injured", all in Iran's province of Kermanshah, deputy head of the Iranian government's crisis unit set up to handle the response to the quake, Behnam Saidi, told state television.
The quake hit 30 kilometres southwest of Halabja in Iraqi Kurdistan 9.20pm local time on Sunday when many people would have been at home, the US Geological Survey said.
