Iran earthquakes: at last five killed and village flattened, state media says

Rescue work carried out after 12 also injured in magnitude-6.1 quake followed by two others and more than dozen aftershocks

At least five people were killed by a magnitude-6.1 earthquake in southern Iran early on Saturday, state media reported, with the area also hit by two later strong quakes of up to 6.3 magnitude.

Five people have died in the earthquake ... and so far 12 are hospitalised," Mehrdad Hassanzadeh, the head of emergency management in Hormozgan province on Iran's Gulf coast, told state TV.