Chivomezi champhamvu cha 7.3 magnitude chakhudza dera lapakati pa Iran ndi Iraq, ndipo anthu pafupifupi 400 afa, pafupifupi onse ku Iran.
Ili ndi lipoti la Iranian Press TV: Chivomerezichi, chomwe chinachitika cha m'ma 09:18 pm nthawi yakomweko Lamlungu (0010 GMT Lolemba), chinali pamtunda wa makilomita 32 kumwera kwa mzinda wa Halabja ku Iraq, ku Iraqi Kurdistan, ndipo kudutsa malire a Iran, malinga ndi United States Geological Survey (USGS).
Koma anthu ovulala kwambiri anachitika m’tauni ya Sarpol-e Zahab, m’chigawo cha Kermanshah ku Iran.
Malinga ndi ziwerengero za boma, 395 anthu aku Iran adatsimikizika kuti amwalira Lolemba masana. Anthu enanso oposa 6,650 anavulala.
Bungwe la National Disaster Management Organisation of Iran linanena kale kuti kudulidwa kwa magetsi kudanenedwa m'chigawo cha Kermanshah. Midzi ingapo kumadzulo kwa Iran yawonanso kuwonongeka kosiyanasiyana.
Mtsogoleri akulamula ntchito zopulumutsa anthu mwachangu
Chivomezicho chitangochitika, Mtsogoleri wa Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei adapereka uthenga wopempha akuluakulu onse aku Iran ndi mabungwe kuti "athamangire kukathandiza omwe akhudzidwa m'maola oyambirirawa [zichitika]."
Mtsogoleriyo adati kuthekera konse mdziko muno kuyenera kugwiritsidwa ntchito mwachangu kuti chiwonjezeko chakufa chiwonjezeke.
Ayatollah Khamenei wapempha Asilikali aku Iran kuti athandize kuchotsa zinyalalazo ndikusamutsira ovulalawo kuzipatala.
Payokha, Purezidenti wa Irani a Hassan Rouhani adalankhula pafoni ndi Nduna ya Zam'kati ku Iran Abdolreza Rahmani-Fazli Lamlungu usiku, yemwe adauza Purezidenti za zosintha zaposachedwa. Purezidenti Rouhani ndiye adapereka malangizo ofunikira kuti athandizire ndikufulumizitsa ntchito zopulumutsa.
Masiku atatu akulira adalengezedwa ku Kermanshah.
Chivomezicho chinamveka m’mizinda ya m’zigawo zina zingapo za Iran, kuphatikizapo kutali kwambiri ndi mzinda wa Tehran.
Chivomezicho chinagwedezanso zigawo za Iran monga Kordestan, Ilam, Khuzestan, Hamedan, West Azarbaijan, East Azarbaijan, Lorestan, Qazvin, Zanjan, ndi Qom.
Zivomezi zidamveka m'mayiko ena, kuphatikizapo Turkey, Kuwait, Armenia, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, ndi Bahrain.
Koma ovulala ndi zowonongeka zinali ku Iran ndi Iraq zokha.
Boma, akuluakulu ankhondo paziro ziro
Purezidenti Rouhani akukonzekera kupita ku Province la Kermanshah kukayang'anira ntchito yopulumutsa anthu Lachiwiri.
Rahmani-Fazli, nduna ya zamkati komanso nduna ya zaumoyo Hassan Ghazizadeh Hashemi anyamuka kale kupita ku Kermanshah kuti akayang'anire ntchito zopulumutsa anthu.
Mtsogoleri wa gulu lankhondo la Iran Major General Abdolrahim Mousavi wafikanso ku Sarpol-e Zahab, limodzi mwa madera omwe akhudzidwa kwambiri, kuti aziyang'anira ntchito zopulumutsa asilikali m'derali.
Mtsogoleri wamkulu wa Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari, nayenso adapitako.
Momwemonso ndi mkulu wa apolisi aku Iran Brigadier General Hossein Ashtari.
Ntchito yopulumutsa
Oyamba kuyankha akhala akugwiritsa ntchito agalu onunkhiza kuti ayang'ane omwe angapulumuke pansi pazibwinja.
Zipatala ku Tehran zakhala tcheru kuti zithandizire ovulala omwe amasamutsidwa ku likulu. Pafupifupi ma ambulansi 43, mabasi anayi a ambulansi, ndi akatswiri odziwa zadzidzidzi a 130 aikidwa pabwalo la ndege la Mehrabad ku Tehran kuti asamutsire ozunzidwawo kuchipatala.
Madokotala opitilira 100 atumizidwanso kumadera omwe akhudzidwa. Gulu lankhondo laku Iran, nalonso, latumiza ma helikoputala kuti lifulumizitse kusamutsidwa kwa ovulala.
Anthu aku Iran akhala akukhamukira kunthambi za bungwe la Blood Transfusion Organisation kukapereka magazi.
Chitonthozo chakunja
Pakadali pano, olemekezeka akunja akhala akupereka chitonthozo kwa boma la Iran ndi anthu chifukwa cha chivomezichi.
Ena mwa iwo ndi kazembe wa Germany ku Iran a Michael Klor-Berchtold, Prime Minister waku Turkey Binali Yildirim, Woimira Wamkulu wa European Union Federica Mogherini, ndi Mlembi Wamkulu wa United Nations Antonio Guterres.
Pakadali pano, Purezidenti wa UN General Assembly watonthozanso anthu aku Iran chifukwa cha chivomezi chomwe chachitika m'zigawo zakumadzulo kwa Iran.
M'makalata pa akaunti yake ya Twitter, Miroslav Lajčák adawonetsa kukhudzidwa kwake ndi kuchuluka kwa anthu omwe amwalira chifukwa cha chivomezi, chomwe chidagunda m'malire a Iran ndi Iraq Lamlungu, ponena kuti General Assembly idayima ndi maboma a mayiko onse awiri ndi omwe adapulumuka zivomezi.
Ku Iraq
Malipoti ati anthu 11 aphedwa ku Iraq. Anthu pafupifupi 130 aku Iraq adavulala.
Ku Iraq, kuwonongeka kwakukulu kunali m'tawuni ya Darbandikhan, makilomita 75 kum'mawa kwa mzinda wa Sulaymaniyah, m'chigawo chodzilamulira cha Kurdistan.
Malinga ndi nduna ya zaumoyo ku Kurdish Rekawt Hama Rasheed, anthu opitilira 30 adavulala mtawuniyi. "Mkhalidwe kumeneko ndi wovuta kwambiri," adatero.
ZOMWE MUNGACHITE PA NKHANIYI:
- Soon after the quake occurred, Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei issued a message calling on all Iranian officials and institutions to “rush to the aid of those affected in these early hours [after the incident].
- An Iranian man stands on the street with his two sons in the city of Sanandaj, in the Iranian province of Kermanshah, after a powerful 7.
- At least 43 ambulances, four ambulance buses, and 130 emergency technicians have been stationed in the Mehrabad Airport in Tehran for a quick transfer of the victims to hospitals.
