At least three people have been killed by a magnitude 6.1 earthquake in southern Iran, state television reports.
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"Unfortunately up to now we have had three deaths and eight wounded," Mehrdad Hassanzadeh, head of emergency management in Hormozgan Province on Iran's Gulf coast, told the television.
Iranian media put the strength of the Saturday morning quake at 6.1 while the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said it had a 6.0 magnitude. The quake was at a depth of 10km, the EMSC said.
Major geological fault lines crisscross Iran, which has suffered several devastating earthquakes in recent years.Â