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Rose to about 230 people, the number of wounded earthquake shook the province of Razavi Khorasan northeastern Iran, without yet received any reports of fatalities.
The Iranian media sources quoted official sources as saying that an earthquake measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale struck on Friday, a number of villages near the city of Nishapur in the province of Khorasan.
Announced the Iranian state television that the number of injured quake rose to 230 after it was responsible for crisis management in the region argument to Chinvar occur earlier in the injury of one hundred people in the earthquake, which lasted seven seconds, pointing out that it was to be rescued 83 people from minor injuries, and transfer to the rest hospitals denying the occurrence of any casualties in the incident.
Local reports said the quake did not cause any serious damage to cause only a few minor cracks in the walls and smashed the glass in some villages, sparking panic among the population in the extreme.
And other local sources to 36 aftershocks followed the quake, the first is the strongest in the history of the region ten years ago.
According to the news agency of the Islamic Republic of Iran, earthquake occurred at dawn and was centered at a distance of ten kilometers outside the city of Nishapur, about seventy kilometers from the city of Mashhad.
Iran lies on a large seismic ruptures, and saw a large number of destructive earthquakes were most violent earthquake in Bam, southern Iran, which took place in December / December of 2003, which killed 31 thousand people.
Source: Agencies
