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Nearly 85 people injured after a magnitude 5.6 earthquake in northwest Iran

MADRID, 24 Mar.

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Nearly 85 people injured after a magnitude 5.6 earthquake in northwest Iran

MADRID, 24 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) -

Around 85 people were injured this Friday by an earthquake of magnitude 5.6 on the Richter scale in the Iranian province of West Azerbaijan, located in the northwest of the country, according to the Organization of the Red Crescent of Iran. .

The agency has detailed in a message posted on its website that most of the injured have been registered in the town of Selmas, located in Joi county. Of the total, more than 50 have received medical attention on the spot, with no information on fatalities for the moment.

The Seismological Center of the Institute of Geophysics of the University of Tehran has pointed out that the earthquake took place around 6:45 am (local time), according to the Iranian news agency Mehr. Joi county was rocked in January by another earthquake that left at least three dead and nearly a thousand injured.