More than 300 dead in Iran-Iraq

More than 300 people have died and at least 4,000 people have been injured after a 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck the border region between Iraq and Iran late Sunday. Most of the deaths reported have been in Iran, though seven people are reported to have died in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq. The quake, which reached a depth of just over 14 miles according to the US Geological Survey, was felt across the region with aftershocks hitting Pakistan, Lebanon, Kuwait and Turkey. Iran sits on a major fault line between the Arabian and Eurasian plates and has experienced a number of earthquakes in the past. The most deadly this century occurred in 2003 when a magnitude 6.6 earthquake struck in the south east of the country, killing some 26,000 people.

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