TEHERAN - A 5.8 magnitude earthquake shook southern Iran early Wednesday, killing one person, injuring dozens and damaging houses in four villages near the town of Lamerd, media reports said.

State television's website reported that "an 80-year-old woman, who was injured in the earthquake, died of internal bleeding after she was taken to hospital in Lamerd."

"Thirty people were injured in Lamerd and two in a village in Hormuzgan," the head of Iran's relief and rescue organization Mahmoud Mozaffar told Fars news agency.