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Ryan Fahey

Unseen horrors of Chernobyl as babies born with fused legs and covered in spots revealed

Never before seen images from the weeks after the Chernobyl disaster show the horrific effects of radiation on the human body.

Infants born with birth defects and young children afflicted with ultra-rare cancers were just some of the horrors recorded among the people living in the towns and villages surrounding the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine.

James Jones' new HBO documentary " Chernobyl : The Lost Tapes" uses never-before-seen interviews and footage to detail the fallout after the explosion in Pripyat on April 26, 1986.

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