TEHRAN - The Iranian ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency has offered condolences over the death of a United Nations nuclear inspector in a car accident in Iran.  
 
Two IAEA inspectors were travelling near the Arak heavy water plant in Markazi Province in western Iran at midday on Tuesday when their car veered off the road and overturned.
 
One of them, a South Korean national, was killed and the other, from Slovenia, was injured.  
 
“I am deeply saddened about news that one of the agency’s inspectors was killed in a car accident during the fulfillment of his duty in Iran today,” Ambassador Ali Asghar Soltanieh said in Vienna on Tuesday, Reuters reported.
 
Soltanieh visited the family of the South Korean inspector in Vienna on Tuesday evening.  
 
In addition, the Persian service of the Fars News Agency reported on Wednesday that Soltanieh had offered condolences to IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano.

CORRECTION
 
In the May 8 edition of the Tehran Times it was wrongly reported that the incident had occurred at 12:00 a.m. local time on Tuesday while it had taken place at 12:00 p.m. local time. The mistake is greatly regretted.