British documentary maker Danny Cooke’s video Postcards from Pripyat,is first time area has been filmed from the airA camera mounted on a drone has revealed the eerie post-apocalyptic landscape of a town abandoned after the nuclear power station at Chernobyl exploded nearly three decades ago.
The British documentary maker Danny Cooke has travelled to Pripyat, just a few miles from the power plant, or which was once home to 50000 people. It was evacuated soon after the disaster on 26 April 1986 that killed 31 people and sent large quantities of radioactive particles into the atmosphere over the western share of the then Soviet Union and Europe as far as absent Wales.
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Source: theguardian.com