An earthquake has shaken eastern Iran, killing at least six people and injuring more than a dozen others.
The quake of 5.5 magnitude hit Iran's Zohan district at 8:38 on Wednesday evening.
Five villages were destroyed and at least 11 others damaged, according to Hassan Qadami, head of Iran's crisis management organisation.
Streets in Khorasan province were crowded with panicked locals after buildings collapsed.
Many others were trapped under rubble waiting for help.
Iran's Red Crescent Society dispatched 15 rescue teams to the villages overnight.
A family walks through the wreckage of a building Survivors had no clean water or means of communication and were bracing for below-zero temperatures when rescue teams found them.
At least 12 aftershocks have been registered since the quake.
Iran sits astride several major fault lines and has experienced devastating earthquakes in the last 10 years.
The south-eastern city of Bam was flattened by a quake in 2003 with 25,000 fatalities and in August this year 300 were killed in north-west Iran.
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