Two powerful earthquakes killed 250 people and injured 1,500+ in northwest Iran where rescue workers frantically combed the rubble of dozens of villages throughout the night and into Sunday as medical staff desperately tried to save lives.
Thousands huddled in makeshift camps or slept in the streets after Saturday’s quakes in fear of more aftershocks, 40 of which have already struck.
Casualty figures are expected to rise, Iranian officials said, as some of the injured were in critical condition while others were still trapped under the rubble in inaccessible places and rescue efforts were hampered by the darkness.
In a photo made available by the semiofficial Fars news agency, a medic attended to an injured woman as people gathered outside a hospital in the town of Ahar following a strong earthquake in Iran on Saturday.
