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Some 24 tremors, two with a magnitude of 6.3 and 6.1, followed
the 2 a.m. local time quake that flattened the village of Sayeh
Khosh near Iran's Gulf coast in Hormozgan province. The most
recent tremor occurred around 8 a.m., officials told state TV.
"All of the victims died in the first earthquake and no-one was
harmed in the next two severe quakes as people were already
outside their homes," said Foad Moradzadeh, governor of Bandar
Lengeh country, quoted by the state news agency IRNA.
Emergency services spokesperson Mojtaba Khaledi told state TV
that half of the 49 people injured had been discharged from
hospitals.
Officials said search and rescue operations had ended.
Saeid Pourzadeh of the Kish island crisis task force said Gulf
shipping and flights had not been affected by the quakes.
State TV said 150 quakes and tremors had struck western
Hormozgan over the past month.
Major geological fault lines crisscross Iran, which has suffered
several devastating earthquakes in recent years. In 2003, a
magnitude 6.6 quake in Kerman province killed 31,000 people and
flattened the ancient city of Bam.
(Reporting by Dubai newsroom and Mrinmay Dey in Bengaluru;
Editing by Chris Reese, Sandra Maler and Kenneth Maxwell)
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