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Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 9:17 pm Post subject: Six dead as powerful quake hits southern Iran |
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TEHRAN (AFP) — A powerful earthquake jolted southern Iran on Wednesday, killing six people, and damaging scores of homes on a resort island in strategic Gulf waters.
The US Geological Survey said the 6.1-magnitude quake hit at 1100 GMT about 53 kilometres (33 miles) southwest of the port of Bandar Abbas, which is home to an oil refinery and the country's main naval base.
"Six were killed and 46 were injured," Mehdi Irannejad, the governor of Qeshm island, where the earthquake occurred, told the state news agency IRNA.
In another natural disaster to hit the country, at least 16 people have drowned in torrential rains and floods that lashed western and southern parts of Iran.
Wednesday's quake occurred on Qeshm, a popular tourist and free-trade island which lies just off the Gulf coast from Bandar Abbas in the Strait of Hormuz, the strategic oil route between Iran, and Oman and the United Arab Emirates.
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