An Iranian military transport plane with 94 people on board crashed into a 10-storey building in the suburbs of the capital Tehran on Tuesday, state television reported.

A 5.5-magnitude earthquake damaged homes in northern Iran today and there were reports of casualties.

A pick-up truck crashed into the wall of the British Embassy in the Iranian capital Tehran tonight, immediately exploding in flames, in what one witness said appeared to be a suicide attack.

At least 200 people have been killed in an earthquake in western Iran, the official news agency reported today.