Southern Iran shaken by 5.1-magnitude quake

By Ahmet Dursun

ISTANBUL (AA) – A 5.1-magnitude earthquake killed four people on Friday in Iran’s southern Fars province, according to reports in local media.

Preliminary reports said four people -- all of them Afghan nationals -- had been killed when their home collapsed in Fars’ Khonj area.

According to Tehran University’s Geophysics Institute Seismology Center, the quake hit Khonj -- located roughly 1,000 kilometers south of Tehran -- at a depth of four kilometers.