Eerie pictures: Untouched Fukushima ‘exclusion zone’

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(MIRROR) — A photographer has shared haunting images of the abandoned Fukushima earthquake ‘exclusion zone’ after risking his safety to sneak into the disaster site.

Wearing a gas mask but no other protective clothing Keow Wee Loong visited four of the evacuated towns in Fukushima – Tomioka, Okuma, Namie and Futaba – in June this year.

Lying completely untouched since March 2011, the city of Fukushima was evacuated suddenly after the east coast of Japan was devastated by a massive earthquake followed by a huge tsunami.

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