Thrill-seekers inspired by a Soviet-era science fiction novel have been blamed for wildfires near the Chernobyl nuclear power station in Ukraine. Yaroslav Yemelyanenko, an adviser to the Ukrainian government, suspects that a group of illegal visitors calling themselves “stalkers” were behind the blaze in the exclusion zone set up around Chernobyl after its catastrophic meltdown in the 1980s.
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