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Added on the 07/08/2018 04:05:39 - Copyright : AFP EN
Chinese authorities have put the Hubei province on lockdown, effectively quarantining millions of people, as the coronavirus spreads despite unprecedented measures. We take a look at life in these ghost towns.
Japanese authorities have evacuated all residents living within a 20 kilometre radius of the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant. Those living between 20 and 30km away have also been advised to leave. But many locals are determined to stay, despite limited supplies of food, medicines and strict instructions to stay indoors.
In Armenia, intense fighting and clashes took place on the border with Azerbaijan, causing 2500 people to flee from the provinces of Gegharkunik and Syunik. Armenia says at least of its 135 soldiers were killed this week's clashes. Most of the evacuees have found refuge in the town of Martuni.
Mykola Gonchar, 58, and his mother Nina, 92, survived the bombardments in Bogorodychne, in the Donbas, a village repeatedly taken and retaken by the Ukrainians and Russians on the front line. The demolished church, its golden domes fallen to the ground, and almost every house in this village of 750 inhabitants before the war bear the traces of violent fighting.
On the edge of the frontline between Mykolaiv and Kherson, in southern Ukraine, most residents have left the villages hit by daily shelling. Some, like Ivan in Shevchenkove, stayed despite the danger to take care of the houses and feed the animals: “We try to help each other as much as we can,” says the 25 year old. Further north, Zelenyi Hai is a ghost town, no part of the village has been spared by the bombs and mortar. Even the town’s school, where people were taking shelter, got completely destroyed: "Many died, our city chairman died, I feel very sorry for him," explains Andriy Koshmak, who used to study in the school.
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