Earthquake injures 16 people in southern Iran
Sixteen people were injured when a 5.3-magnitude earthquake jolted southern Iran on Wednesday, the semi-official Mehr News Agency reported. "Seventeen villages in the area have been damaged," Mehr quoted a local official, Hamid Taqizadeh, as saying.
The quake hit close to the town of Ardakan, in the southern province of Fars, at 9:25 am local time, Tehran University's seismological centre reported on its website. (Reuters)
