By William Cole For Mailonline
Published: 13:32 GMT, 21 February 2019 | Updated: 13:32 GMT, 21 February 2019
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Haunting photographs show how nature is reclaiming a town abandoned following a nuclear disaster 33 years ago.
Rarely seen remains of Chernobyl power station and Pripyat in Ukraine can be seen falling to ruin, as vast plant growth begins to consume a once busy town.
The series of photos show Vines snaking around a bumper car, the crumbling inside of a ransacked supermarket, and gasmasks strewn across the floor.
The sketeal remains of an Ukranian supermarket 33 years after the town of Pripyat was evacuated following the nuclear explosion nearby
The power plant and nearby town Pripyat - once home to 50,000 people - remain more or less untouched three decades after they were evacuated in 1986.
Chernobyl was the scene of the worlds' worst nuclear disaster when the No.4 reactor overheated during a bungled safety test on the night of 25-26 April 1986.
The explosion and fire that raged for nine days sent radioactive particles into the atmosphere which spread across Europe.
Gas masks are left on a school desk in a messy classroom. Chairs remain on desks after the early morning alarm of the disaster was raised before children had woken to go into school
Disaster site: Chernobyl power plant seen in the distance with the new containment unit covering reactor four (left). The original fire was extinguished within hours but the core became unstable and continued to emit large amounts of radiation
18-mile exclusion zone was put in place to prevent more