{"id":4559,"date":"2022-07-02T08:53:48","date_gmt":"2022-07-02T03:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=4559"},"modified":"2022-07-02T08:53:49","modified_gmt":"2022-07-02T03:53:49","slug":"iran-five-dead-dozen-injured-in-6-1-magnitude-earth-quake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/asia\/iran-five-dead-dozen-injured-in-6-1-magnitude-earth-quake\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran: Five dead, dozen injured in 6.1 magnitude earth quake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Iran: Five people lost their life and at least 12 are injured in a 6.1-magnitude earthquake in southern Iran early on Saturday, state media reported.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The region was hit by two strong quakes later of up to 6.3 magnitude.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>State news agency&nbsp;<em>IRNA<\/em>&nbsp;said a 6.3-magnitude earthquake and a 6.1-magnitude quake followed the first 6.1-magnitude quake that flattened the village of Sayeh Khosh near Iran&#8217;s Gulf coast. There were more than a dozen aftershocks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mehrdad Hassanzadeh, head of emergency management in Hormozgan Province on Iran&#8217;s Gulf coast was quoted by told state TV that &#8220;five people have died in the earthquake and so far 12 are hospitalized.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Rescue work has been carried out and we are now providing tents as emergency housing.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;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,&#8221; said Foad Moradzadeh, governor of Bandar Lengeh country, quoted by the state news agency&nbsp;<em>IRNA<\/em>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran: Five people lost their life and at least 12 are injured in a 6.1-magnitude earthquake in southern Iran early on Saturday, state media reported. The region was hit by two strong quakes later of up to 6.3 magnitude. State news agency&nbsp;IRNA&nbsp;said a 6.3-magnitude earthquake and a 6.1-magnitude quake followed the first 6.1-magnitude quake that [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,396],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-latest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4559"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}