- **This is breaking news, there will be more to follow**
At least four people were killed and 120 injured on Tuesday in a 4.9 magnitude earthquake that shook the northeastern Iranian city of Kashmar, state media reported.
The earthquake occurred at 1:24 p.m. (0954 GMT), Kashmar Governor Hajatollah Shariatmadari said on state television, giving the death toll.
Thirty-five people were hospitalized, he said, adding that the earthquake mostly damaged dilapidated buildings in urban and rural areas of the city.
State television broadcast images of the earthquake’s aftermath showing rescuers working on a street where all buildings were reduced to rubble.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 kilometers (six miles).
Iran sits on several tectonic plates and is often hit by earthquakes.
A magnitude 5.9 earthquake early last year killed three people and injured more than 800 in the country’s mountainous northwest, near the border with Turkey.
And in one of the world’s deadliest disasters, a magnitude 6.6 earthquake killed more than 31,000 people in the southeastern Iranian city of Bam in 2003.
More to follow.
