A powerful earthquake killed four people in southern Iran on Tuesday close to the country’s only nuclear power station, Reuters reports.
A Red Cross official said two villages had been heavily damaged by the magnitude 6.3 quake but the Russian company that built the Bushehr plant said the reactor was undamaged.
Offices in the capitals of Qatar and Bahrain were evacuated after the quake, whose epicenter was 89 km southeast of the port city of Bushehr, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
State television gave no further details of the four casualties.
Thousands of people live near the nuclear plant and the villages of Shanbe and Sana, whose populations are less than 2,000 each, suffered serious damage, Red Crescent official Morteza Moradipour told state news agency IRNA.
