Ukraine is marking the 25th anniversary of the world’s worst nuclear accident – at the Chernobyl power plant, BBC News reported.
An explosion at one of the plant’s reactors sent a plume of radiation across Europe and killed at least 30 people in its immediate aftermath.
A disputed number of others died later from radiation-related illnesses.
The anniversary comes amid renewed global protest over nuclear power and as Japan struggles to contain radiation leaks at its crippled Fukushima plant.
It was on 26 April 1986 that Number Four reactor at Chernobyl exploded.
The accident forced the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people from their homes in Ukraine, western Russia and Belarus.
There is still a 30km (19 miles) exclusion zone around the plant.
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