No less than 5 killed in magnitude 6.1 quake on Iran Gulf coast

DUBAI, July 2 (Reuters) – No less than 5 individuals have been killed and 49 injured by a 6.1-magnitude earthquake in southern Iran early on Saturday, state media reported, with the world additionally hit shortly afterwards by two robust earthquakes of as much as 6.3 magnitude.

Some 24 tremors, two with a magnitude of 6.3 and 6.1, adopted the two am native time quake that hit the Sayeh Khosh village close to Iran’s Gulf coast in Hormozgan province. The latest tremor occurred round 8 am, officers informed state tv.

“All of the victims died within the first earthquake and nobody was injured within the subsequent two extreme earthquakes as a result of individuals have been already out of their homes,” Foad Moradzadeh, governor of Bandar Lengeh nation, was quoted as saying by state information company IRNA.

Emergency companies spokesman Mojtaba Khaledi informed state tv that half of the 49 injured individuals had been discharged from hospitals.

Authorities stated search and rescue operations had ended.

Saeid Pourzadeh, of the Kish Island disaster activity drive, stated that shipments and flights from the Gulf had not been affected by the earthquakes.

State tv stated 150 earthquakes and tremors hit western Hormozgan previously month.

Main fault traces run by way of Iran, which has suffered a number of devastating earthquakes in recent times. In 2003, a 6.6 magnitude earthquake in Kerman province killed 31,000 individuals and flattened the traditional metropolis of Bam.

Reporting from the Dubai newsroom and Mrinmay Dey in Bangalore; Edited by Chris Reese, Sandra Maler and Kenneth Maxwell

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