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Charlie Watton & Chiara Fiorillo

Inside town abandoned after nuclear disaster filled with hundreds of vintage cars

Hundreds of abandoned vintage cars have been discovered inside a town that remained empty after a huge nuclear disaster.

The Fukushima exclusion zone in Japan became home to thousands of abandoned cars after the nuclear fallout in 2011 - one of the most well-known disasters in human history that saw over 160,000 people forced to evacuate the area.

On March 11, 2011, the strongest earthquake ever recorded in Japan shook the country for six minutes, killing nearly 20,000 people and devastating communities.

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