Abandoned Fukushima livestock to be culled

Abandoned Fukushima livestock to be culled

MINAMISOMA, Japan - Local officials in protective outfits prepare to enter the no-entry zone set by the central government, within the radius of 20 kilometers from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, in Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, on April 25, 2011, to assess the conditions of the livestock and poultry there. The prefectural government has decided to cull animals and birds which are dying without food and water after evacuation of the residents.

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