During decades of legal battles against Antwerp port expansion, the population in Doel dwindled, buildings were defaced, fell into disrepair or were demolished. Photos: dpa
Doel, a Belgian village perched by the river Scheldt in the shadows of a nuclear power plant, has a population of just 18 residents.
Its many houses, now boarded up and covered in street art and graffiti, were once the homes of some 800 inhabitants.
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