Radioactive boars are running rampant in Japanese towns six years after Fukushima [View all]

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New York Daily News

Radioactive boars are running rampant in Japanese towns left vacant after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear meltdown sent their inhabitants scrambling.

Those returning to the town of Namie now worry about the nuclear-infected pigs, which have been known to attack humans, according to media reports.

“It is not really clear now which is the master of the town, people or wild boars,” Mayor Tamotsu Baba said. “If we don’t get rid of them and turn this into a human-led town, the situation will get even wilder and uninhabitable.”

Namie, which is in the northern Fukushima region of Japan, was one of several towns evacuated six years ago after an earthquake-induced meltdown at a nuclear plant less than three miles away spread radiation through the area.

There's a monster movie just waiting to be made here.