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25 years after Chernobyl nuclear disaster
Updated: 2011-03-21 13:34
(Agencies)
A buzzard sits on a pole's remains which was cut by workers, in a forest in the state radiation ecology reserve in the 30 km (19 miles) exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear reactor near the abandoned village of Babchin, some 370 km (230 miles) southeast of Minsk, March 20, 2011. [Photo/Agencies] |
Remains of a barbed wire fence covered with snow are seen at the border of the state radiation ecology reserve in the 30 km (19 miles) exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear reactor near the village of Babchin, some 370 km (230 miles) southeast of Minsk, March 20, 2011. [Photo/Agencies] |
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