People shelter overnight after the two earthquakes in East Azerbaijan Province
0555 GMT: The death toll from Saturday's two earthquakes and more than 20 subsequent aftershocks in the northwest is now at least 250 people, with more than 2000 others injured.
An earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale struck Ahar, 60 kilometres (37 miles) northeast of the city of Tabriz, at 15:53 local time (1123 GMT). Another tremor measuring 6.3 was centred on Varzaqan and Haris, which are located near Ahar, 11 minutes later.
Twelve villages have been completely destroyed by the earthquake and about 60 others have been partially destroyed.
Thousands of people were forced to remain outdoors overnight.Posted via email from lissping
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