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<br>DUBAI, July 2 (Reuters) - At least five people were killed and 49 injured by a magnitude 6.1 earthquake in southern Iran early on Saturday, state media reported, with the area also hit soon after by two strong quakes of up to 6.3 magnitude.<br> <br>Some 24 tremors, two with a magnitude of 6.3 and 6.1, followed the 2 a.m.  local time quake that flattened the village of Sayeh Khosh near Iran's Gulf coast in Hormozgan province. The most recent tremor occurred around 8 a.m., officials told state TV.<br> <br>"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," said Foad Moradzadeh, governor of  http://billydprim.com/__media__/js/netsoltrademark.php?d=https://totosaja99.blogspot.com/  Lengeh country, quoted by the state news agency IRNA.<br> <br>Emergency services spokesperson Mojtaba Khaledi told state TV that half of the 49 people injured had been discharged from hospitals.<br> <br>Officials said search and rescue operations had ended.<br> <br>Saeid Pourzadeh of the Kish island crisis task force said Gulf shipping and flights had not been affected by the quakes.<br> <br>State TV said 150 quakes and tremors had struck western Hormozgan over the past month.<br> <br>Major geological fault lines crisscross Iran, which has suffered several devastating earthquakes in recent years.  In 2003, a magnitude 6.6 quake in Kerman province killed 31,000 people and flattened the ancient city of Bam. (Reporting by Dubai newsroom and Mrinmay Dey in Bengaluru; Editing by Chris Reese, Sandra Maler and Kenneth Maxwell)<br>