Chernobyl (Ukraine) (AFP) – Ukrainians held candlelit vigils Tuesday to mark 30 years since the world’s worst nuclear accident at Chernobyl spewed radiation across Europe and left several thousand people dead or dying.Church bells rang and mourners lit candles and laid flowers at the site’s memorial as the clock turned 1.23 am — the exact moment when the plant’s reactor number four exploded and changed the fate of a generation living across the former Soviet Union.There was crying and screaming, local pensioner Maria Urupa told AFP as she recalled the terror that struck locals as they watched poisonous clouds of …read more
Source: Dunya TV
