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Iran Earthquake Kills at Least 5, State Media Says


DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – At least five people were killed by a 6.1-magnitude earthquake in southern Iran early Saturday, state media reported. Two other strong earthquakes later hit the area.

An emergency services spokesman, Mojtaba Khaledi, told Iranian state television that 49 people had been injured, half of whom had been discharged by the end of Saturday. Officials said search and rescue operations were over, indicating that no one is believed to be trapped under the rubble.

State news agency IRNA said the first quake caused widespread damage to Sayeh Khosh village, a village in Hormozgan province near Iran’s Persian Gulf coast, followed by two other earthquakes, with strong degrees 6.3 and 6.1. There were more than a dozen aftershocks.

United States Geological Survey give different figures. It said the first quake had a magnitude of 6.0 and the two subsequent quakes had a magnitude of 5.7 and 6.0.

IRNA quoted Foad Moradzadeh, governor of Bandar Lengeh county, as saying: “All the victims died in the first earthquake and no one was harmed in the next two severe earthquakes because everyone was in outside their home”.

Shock has been felt in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.

Major geological fault lines cut across Iran, a country that has suffered several devastating earthquakes in recent years. In 2003, a magnitude 6.6 earthquake in Kerman province killed tens of thousands of people and flattened the ancient city of Bam.

Erin Mendell Contribution report from Seoul.





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