According Farzad Panahi, head of Iran's emergency services, the cyclone caused flash floods in Hormozgan and Sistan-Balochistan provinces in Iran damaging about 70 percent of the residential houses in the town of Jask.
The Iranian news agency IRNA is reporting that after the devastating tropical storm, Cyclone Gonu, hit the Persian Gulf region a cargo ship sank in the coastal waters of Haghani jetty in Bandar Abbas on Wednesday.
Twelve people were killed when Cyclone Gonu struck the Gulf country of Oman, an emergency official says. The storm was the strongest to hit the Gulf for decades, damaging buildings and trees in Oman's capital, Muscat, and leaving many roads flooded.
Oman evacuated tens of thousands of people Wednesday, suspended oil exports and closed a major port as a weakening Cyclone Gonu roared toward the Strait of Hormuz - the world's major transport artery for Persian Gulf oil.
Tropical Cyclone Gonu was captured by the Aqua satellite in the northern Indian Ocean basin, heading towards the north-eastern shore of Oman on June 4, 2007.