Iran’s English-language Press TV said more than 450 people were killed and 7,000 were injured when the magnitude 7.3 earthquake jolted the country on Sunday. “We need a shelter,” a middle-aged man in Sarpol-e Zahab told state TV. But then I heard everyone around me screaming: ‘Earthquake!’“An Iranian local official told state TV that some villages were totally destroyed. “I lost nine members of my family ... they were killed while they slept,” a weeping middle-aged woman told state TV. Iran’s police, Revolutionary Guards and Basij militia forces were sent to quake-hit areas overnight, state TV reported.

Source: New Strait Times November 14, 2017 00:22 UTC