Wednesday Quake in Northwestern Iran Injures over 50 People

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Fars News Agency - 11/07/12

TEHRAN (FNA)- The tremors which struck parts of Northwestern Iran on Wednesday have injured more than 50 people, medics reported.

The biggest of the tremors measuring 5.1 on the richer scale struck the city of Varzaqan, East Azarbaijan Province, at approximately 09:56 local time (0626 GMT) and wounded 50 people, many of them suffering hand and foot fractures.

Those injured people who had suffered serious wounds were immediately transferred to the hospital and others received outpatient treatment by the relief workers.

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