Earthquake hits southern Iran

An Iranian hospital worker cleans as a victim of Wednesday's earthquake rests at the port city of Bandar Abbas 850 miles (1,367 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009. Iran's state news agency says an earthquake has injured at least 700 people in the country's south. IRNA reported Wednesday that 100 of the injured had been hospitalized while the rest were minor cases. The 4.9-magnitude quake struck the southern port city of Bandar Abbas at 2:56 a.m. local time, cutting power and telephone lines and sending residents streaming into the streets.