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Earthquake strikes Iran
07/03/2007 10:02 - (SA)
Tehran - Thirty-five people were injured on Wednesday when an earthquake measuring 4.8 on the Richter scale struck the city of Daroud in Iran's western province of Lorestan, local officials said.
Most of the casualties were wounded by shards of glass from broken windows or when they were trampled on by confused victims in the aftermath of the quake at 02:00, the city's governor Nasrollah Rashno said.
The earthquake comes just under a year after a much stronger quake of 6.0 magnitude struck the same area, killing around 70 people and leaving thousands homeless.
Iran sits astride several major faults in the earth's crust, and is prone to frequent earthquakes, many of them devastating.
The worst quake in recent times hit Bam in the south of the country in December 2003, killing 31 000 people, about a quarter of the city's population, and destroying the city's ancient mud-built citadel.
- AFP
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