A strong earthquake rattled the Iraqi capital Baghdad and also hit the border area with Iran, local media sources reported on Sunday.
The city of Kermanshah in Iran, close to the Iraqi border, was hit with a magnitude 5.9 quake in addition to two aftershocks above 3.0 on the Richter scale, according to the Tasnim news agency.
The U.S. Geological Survey reported that a shallow, magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck about 55 miles (88 km) west-northwest of Kermanshah. urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL2N1VG0A5
There were no immediate reports of the number of casualties or material damage from the quake.
Last November, a 7.3 magnitude quake struck villages and towns in Kermansheh province along the mountainous border with Iraq, killing at least 530 people and injuring thousands of others. It was Iran’s deadliest earthquake in more than a decade.
(Reporting By Babak Dehghanpisheh Editing by Marguerita Choy) ((babak.dehghanpisheh@thomsonreuters.com;))
