At least one person was killed in a 5.1 earthquake in the town of Damavand, 69km east of Iran's capital Tehran, at 20:18 on May 7 (3:18 am August 8). / 5 in Vietnamese time).
Tasnim news agency quoted an Iranian state Emergency spokesman as saying that a 60-year-old man was killed in the earthquake.
Meanwhile, 11 others, including five in the town of Gilavand and six in the eastern part of Tehran, were injured.