TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian authorities said Monday the number of injured in the magnitude 6.3 earthquake in western Iran the previous night has risen to 716. According to Iran’s state television, most of the injured were immediately released from hospitals and suffered only slight injuries in the quake on Sunday night. Dr. Hossein Rahnimi, the head of a local hospital, said many of the injured also suffered panic attacks. The earthquake struck western Iran near its border with Iraq, damaging buildings and sending fearful residents running into the streets. In 2003, a magnitude 6.6 earthquake flattened the historic city of Bam in southern Iran, killing 26,000 people.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer November 26, 2018 08:03 UTC