Toxic towns in Kyrgyzstan battling radioactive danger

Min-Kush, Kyrgyzstan (AFP) Nov 12, 2024

In a mask and a hazmat suit, Ermek Murataliyev drives a truck filled with Soviet-era radioactive waste along the winding mountain roads of Kyrgyzstan. His is a hazardous mission: two such trucks crashed into ravines over the summer. Drivers in this former Soviet Central Asian state are forbidden to stop until they reach their final destination - a storage zone where the waste will be bu