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21-11-2017
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People are still searching for their loved ones among the rubble of last week's earthquake, which according to official figures killed 436 in Kermanshah province and tens of thousands lost their homes.

The November 12 earthquake, which also violently shook parts of the Kurdistan Region especially the towns of Halabja and Darbandikhan, measured magnitude 7.3 on the Richter scale.

According to statements by Iran’s minister of interior Abdulraza Rahmani Fazli, 1,900 villages and 7 cities in the province of Kermanshah were affected by the powerful quake.