No Indonesian victim in Iraqi quake: Ministry

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A rescue worker searches debris for survivors with his sniffing dog after an earthquake at the city of Sarpol-e-Zahab in western Iran, Monday, Nov. 13, 2017. A powerful earthquake shook the Iran-Iraq border late Sunday, killing more than two hundreds people, Iranian state media said.
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REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- The Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday said there are no Indonesian citizens who became victims of the 7.3 Richter scale earthquake that occurred in Halabja City, about 350 km north of Baghdad, on Sunday night at 21:20 local time.

Director of Indonesian Citizen Protection of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Muhammad Iqbal through a short message received in Jakarta on Monday stated that after the earthquake shook the city on the Iranian and Iranian border, the Indonesian embassies in Baghdad and in Tehran continued to monitor developments and coordinated with local authorities as well as the places of Indonesian citizens in around the scene.

"So far there are no reports of Indonesian citizens who became victims," Iqbal said.

 
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