A senior provincial official has said the death toll from the Iranian earthquake has risen to 500.

A POWERFUL earthquake hit a mountainous region of south-east Iran yesterday, killing at least 420 people, injuring hundreds and destroying villages, officials said.

CRISS-CROSSED by many major fault lines, Iran is one of the world’s most earthquake-prone countries.

Survivors frantically searched for loved ones in sub zero temperatures tonight after a powerful earthquake flattened villages in the mountains of central Iran, killing at least 420 people and injuring more than 900.

The death toll in today's powerful earthquake in central Iran has risen to at least 370, with more than 1,000 injured.

A powerful earthquake shook central Iran today, destroying villages, killing at least 190 people and injuring more than 1,000, with fears the death toll will pass 350.

The death toll in the powerful earthquake which shook central Iran today has risen to 400, according to reports.

A massive earthquake shook central Iran today, killing at least 80 people and injuring more than 300.

RESCUE workers pulled three more survivors from the rubble of Bam’s devastating earthquake yesterday — including a man saved from a flattened house — as relief crews restored some electricity and rushed more aid into the ruined ancient city.

Rescue workers pulled three more survivors from the rubble of Bam’s devastating earthquake – including a man saved today from a flattened house – as relief crews restored some electricity and rushed more aid into the ruined ancient city.

A man was pulled alive from the rubble of Iran’s devastating earthquake today as relief workers restored some electricity and rushed more aid into the ruined ancient city of Bam.

Iran’s orphanages are rapidly filling as aid workers sort the living from the dead, just five days after the devastating earthquake that killed tens of thousands.

SURVIVORS of the devastating earthquake in Bam in southeast Iran spent another night in the freezing cold as relief, including an 80-strong US team, continued to flood in.

Survivors of Iran’s earthquake scavenged the rubble for their battered belongings and desperately jostled for aid handouts as the death toll rose to 28,000, with even more feared dead.

SOME 50,000 people may have died in Friday's Iranian earthquake, officials said yesterday, as relief workers pleaded for more aid for survivors of one of the deadliest natural disasters of modern times.

Two massive aftershocks caused more walls to tumble and left a rising cloud of dust over the remains of Iran’s earthquake devastated city of Bam today.

Foreign aid streamed into Iran today to help the people of the devastated city of Bam recover from an earthquake.

Officials in Iran fear that up to 40,000 people may have died when a powerful earthquake reduced much of a city to rubble.

Rescuers tonight began searching for survivors of the Iranian earthquake as officials predicted the death toll could reach 40,000.

More rescue teams were due to arrive in Iran today following a devastating earthquake that left up to 20,000 people dead.

THE world was responding to Iran’s plea for help last night after an earthquake devastated an historic city, killing up to 20,000 people as they slept.

THE survivors of a massive earthquake that may have killed up to 20,000 people and devastated the historic southeastern Iranian city of Bam were beside themselves with grief yesterday, as the scale of the catastrophe swamped rescue workers.

The world is responding to Iran’s plea for help after an earthquake devastated a historic city, killing up to 20,000 people as they slept.

Up to 10,000 people are feared dead after a devastating earthquake struck in Iran today.

An earthquake destroyed 60% of the housing in a city in southeast Iran early today, killing many people as they slept, state television reported.

SEARCH teams pressed through fog, rain and strong wind yesterday to recover some mutilated bodies from the mountainous site of a military plane crash that killed 302 members of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard, the state news agency reported.

A military plane carrying 302 members of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards has crashed in the country’s south-eastern mountains, killing everyone on board, state-run media reported.

A plane carrying 302 people, all military personnel, crashed in southern Iran tonight, killing all on board, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported.

Aircraft security officers have foiled an attempt to hijack an Iranian airliner on a domestic flight, the official Iranian news agency Irna reported today.