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Katie Weston

Russia triggers 'mad panic' by evacuating town near Europe's largest nuclear power plant

Russian officials have triggered a "mad panic" after evacuating a town near Europe's largest nuclear power plant.

Yevgeny Balitsky, governor of the partially-occupied Zaporizhzhia province, ordered civilians from 18 settlements to leave the area - including Enerhodar, where most of the power station's staff live.

The plant is near the front lines of fighting, and Ukrainian authorities said on Sunday that a 72-year-old woman was killed and three other people injured when Russian forces fired more than 30 shells at Nikopol, a Ukrainian-held town nearby.

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