A strong 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck western Iran near the border with Iraq early Sunday, killing two people and injuring more than 200, officials said. The head of the emergency department at Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Saeb Sharidari, told state news agency IRNA that two people were killed and 241 injured, six critically. Sharidari said the two dead were a pregnant woman and a 70-year-old man who suffered a heart attack. Kermanshah governor Houshang Bazvand told the Tasnim news agency that electricity had been temporarily cut to several villages. In 1990, a 7.4-magnitude quake in northern Iran killed 40,000 people, injured 300,000 and left half a million homeless, reducing dozens of towns and nearly 2,000 villages to rubble.

Source: Egypt Independent August 26, 2018 06:56 UTC