Residents of a remote Armenian village close to the Iranian border stayed and slept outdoors on Wednesday four days after a powerful earthquake in northwestern Iran that killed at least 250 people.
With the epicenter of the earthquake located less than 70 kilometers from the Armenian-Iranian frontier, the tremors were felt in much of Armenia and especially its southeastern Syunik province. They damaged houses in several provincial towns and villages adjacent to the Arax river marking the border.
The damage was visible in at least one of those villages, Varhavar. The house belonging to an elderly local man, Sokrat Arakelian, was apparently hit hardest. Arakelian said he was lying on a couch when its frontal wall crumbled after the first tremor. He rushed out of the house and has not gone back since then.
Armenian News
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