Four killed, 120 injured after 4.9 magnitude earthquake strikes Iran
State television aired footage of the aftermath of the quake showing first responders working in a street where all buildings were reduced to rubble.
At least four people were killed and 120 injured Tuesday in a 4.9 magnitude earthquake that hit Iran's northeastern city of Kashmar, state media reported.
The quake struck at 1:24 pm (0954 GMT), Kashmar's governor, Hajatollah Shariatmadari, who gave the casualty toll, said on state television.
Thirty-five people were hospitalised, he said, adding the quake damaged mostly dilapidated buildings in urban and rural areas of the city.
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State television aired footage of the aftermath of the quake showing first responders working in a street where all buildings were reduced to rubble.
The United States Geological Survey said the earthquake hit at a depth of 10 kilometres (six miles).
Iran sits atop various tectonic plates and is often hit by earthquakes.
A 5.9 magnitude quake early last year killed three people and injured over 800 in the country's mountainous northwest, near the border with Turkey.
And in one of the world's deadliest disasters, a 6.6 magnitude earthquake killed over 31,000 people in Iran's southeastern city of Bam in 2003.
