YEREVAN. – President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan has sent a condolence letter to his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on the occasion of the destructive quake occurred in Iran.

“I am deeply sorry for the destructive quake that jolted Iran, and claimed hundreds of human lives, numerous injuries and destruction. We are with the Iranians on this sorrowful moment and will be ready to support and overcome consequences of the quake,” the letter reads. 

As Armenian News-NEWS.am reported earlier, four quakes measured 6.2 to 6.6 jolted Iran’s north-west near the Armenian border on Saturday

The quakes were also followed by aftershocks measured 4.1 to 4.8 on the Richter scale. The tremors were felt also in the cities of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh. A 4.5 magnitude tremor was registered in Armenia’s south and 3-4 magnitude in capital city Yerevan. The quake caused panic and made people leave their houses in southern Armenia. No casualties and destruction in the territory of Armenia was reported.

The quake killed 306 and injured over 3,000 people in Iranian Atropatena province.