On March 16, a fire has broken out at No.4 reactor of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex. Smoke was seen rising from the building, Kyodo agency reports.

No information is available on casualties. Efforts are under way to extinguish the fire, RIA Novosti reports.

As Armenian News-NEWS.am reported earlier, on March 11, the biggest earthquake (9 magnitude) in the recent years hit the northeast of Japan, triggering a 10-meter tsunami and followed by several powerful aftershocks. The epicenter is located 373 to north-east from Japan’s capital, Tokyo at the depth of 24 kilometers. A massive earthquake damaged cooling functions of the nuclear plant, making the operator to pour seawater into reactors and let out radioactive air into atmosphere.