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Deadly Earthquake Shakes Iran

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Hits near nuclear plant, killing at least 30.

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Mehr News Agency/Reuters,via Landov

At least 30 people are dead after a magnitude-6.3 earthquake shook southwest Iran’s Bushehr province, near the country’s only nuclear plant. At least 800 people are injured, but state media says the plant was not damaged. Tremors could be felt across the Gulf in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Bahrain. An estimated 10,000 people are said to live in the more than 50 villages that were affected. Two of those villages have been completely decimated.

Read it at BBC News