At least five people were killed in a 6.1-magnitude earthquake in southern Iran early Saturday, state media reported, with two strong 6.3-magnitude quakes later also struck the region.
“Five people have died in the quake … and 12 are hospitalized so far,” said Mehrdad Hasanzadeh, head of emergency management in Hormozgan province on Iran’s Gulf Coast. “Rescue work has been done and we are now providing tents as emergency accommodation.”
state news agency IRNA: Said that a 6.3-magnitude earthquake and a 6.1-magnitude quake after an earlier 6.1-magnitude quake leveled the village of Sayh Khosh near Iran’s Gulf Coast. There were more than a dozen aftershocks.
“All the victims were killed in the first quake and no one was harmed in the next two severe quakes because people were already out of their homes,” Fod Moradzadeh, governor of Bandar Lengh country, was quoted as saying by the state news agency. IRNA:,
During this, Khaleej Times informed of Tremors were also felt in parts of the United Arab Emirates.
Major geological fault lines cross Iran, which has experienced several devastating earthquakes in recent years. In 2003, a magnitude 6.6 earthquake killed 31,000 people in Kerman Province and devastated the ancient city of Bam.