At least 87 people died and 600 were hurt in two strong earthquakes that jolted northwest Iran on Saturday, the head of the regional natural disasters centre, Khalil Saie, told state television.
The death toll, arrived at by tallying of fatalities in various locales, and the number of injured were revised upwards from a previous number of 80 dead and 400 injured.
The two temblors, registering 6.2 and 6.0 on the moment magnitude scale according to Tehran University's Seismological Centre, struck within minutes of each other, damaging scores of villages northeast of the city of Tabriz.
The US Geological Survey, which monitors quakes worldwide, ranked them as more powerful than that, at 6.4 and 6.3, respectively.