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A series of strong earthquakes rocked southern Iran on Saturday, killing at least five people and damaging dozens of buildings, state media reported.
The earthquakes, including two with a magnitude of 6.0, struck west of the major port city of Bandar Abbas in Hormozgan province, the US Geological Survey said.
The first shook an area north of the city of Dezhgan just after 2:00 a.m. before a 5.7 quake struck two hours later, quickly followed by a third magnitude 6.0 quake.
Hormozgan Governor Mehdi Dousti said five people were killed, as quoted by the official IRNA news agency.
Dousti said most of the damage occurred in the village of Sayeh Khosh, near the epicenter.
State television said 49 people were injured and showed footage of residential buildings reduced to rubble in Sayeh Khosh.
Ambulances and other vehicles struggled to navigate the debris-strewn streets as shocked residents took to the streets or tried to retrieve belongings from flattened homes.
People also spent the night outside in the provincial capital of Bandar Abbas, with a population of more than 500,000, located about 100 kilometers east of the epicenter, where long lines formed outside gas stations, state media reported.
Iran lies across the boundaries of several major tectonic plates and experiences frequent seismic activity.
The state’s deadliest earthquake was a magnitude 7.4 quake in 1990 that killed 40,000 people in the north, injured 300,000 and left half a million homeless.
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