Speaking to FNA in Bandar Abbas, Shekari said that the child died on way to the hospital.
Meantime, Shekari stressed that a total number of 11 people have been injured in the 6.2 earthquake in the town of Bashagard, adding that they are now in good health conditions.
Other sources said that the quake has injured a total number of 17 throughout the province, most of them outpatients, adding that it has claimed no other life, except for the child.
The Seismological center of Bushehr province affiliated to the Geophysics Institute of Tehran University registered a magnitude 6.2 quake in Hormozgan with several aftershocks jolting various parts of the province, specially the port cities of Jask and Minab.
The main quake today jolted Minab at 06:38 hours local time (0208 GMT Friday) at a depth of 15 kilometers.
The epicenter of the quake was located in an area 57.76 degrees in longitude and 26.52 degrees in latitude.
The Seismological center of Bushehr also said that the aftershocks measured 4.8, 4.7, 4.1, 4.9, 5, 5.6, 4.7, 5.2, 3.8, 3.8, 3.9, 4.4, 4, 4.2 on the Richter scale, adding that the last one occurred at 10:29 hours local time (0559 GMT).
A 6.3 earthquake killed 39 people and injured 850 in neighboring Bushehr province last month. Iran's only nuclear power reactor at Bushehr remained unscathed in the quake.
Then, less than a week later a magnitude 7.6 quake jolted the town of Saravan in Iran's Southeastern Sistan and Balouchestan province. The powerful earthquake did not kill anyone as its epicenter was located in a desert area around 81km North of Saravan and in the depth of 95km.
