An earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale has struck Laft, a village in Howmeh Rural District, in the Central District of Qeshm County, in Hormozgan province.

Iran Press/Iran news: Spokesman of Iran Emergency Services announced that the 5.2-magnitude quake which hit Laft district in southern Iranian island of Qeshm on Sunday injured one person who was trying the reach safety when the earthquake struck.

Mojtaba Khaledi, in an interview with IRNA, said the tremor occurred at 14:24 local time (10:54 GMT) at the depth of 10 km underground, according to the Seismological Center of the Geophysics Institute of Tehran University.

In the wake of the earthquake, 5 assessment teams from the Emergency department were dispatched to the site, he added. 103 /211