Iran and Iraq Earthquake in Pictures

Iranian people and soldiers stand around damaged buildings in the city of Sarpol-e Zahab in Kermanshah Province, Iran on13 November 2017.
A 7.3-magnitude earthquake has shaken the northern border region between Iran and Iraq, killing at least 396 people and injuring thousands more.
More than 7,000 people are also said to have been injured in the quake, the world's deadliest this year.
Most of those who died were in Iran's western Kermanshah province, where a search for survivors has started.
Nine more people died in Iraq, where residents fled from their homes into the streets in the capital, Baghdad.
"I was sitting with my kids having dinner and suddenly the building was just dancing in the air," a Baghdad resident, Majida Ameer, told Reuters news agency.
"I thought at first that it was a huge bomb. But then I heard everyone around me screaming: 'Earthquake!'"
A building in Sarpol-e Zahab county in Kermanshah
Residents huddle around a fire outside of housing buildingsRocks are seen on the road after an earthquake near the Darbandikhan Dam, close the city of Sulaimaniyah, Iraq - 13 November 2017People remove rubble from a damaged mosque following an earthquake in Khanaqin, Diyala Province, Iraq, November 13,2017A man reacts following an earthquake in Sarpol-e Zahab county in Kermanshah, Iran November 13, 2017. Tasnim News Agency/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS

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