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This file photo taken on June 11, 2014 shows people visiting “The Gateway to Hell”, a huge burning gas crater in the heart of Turkmenistan's Karakum desert. The president of authoritarian Turkmenistan gave orders to extinguish a flaming natural gas crater in the Central Asian country's desert – dubbed the “Door to Hell” – state TV said Saturday. The Darvaza gas crater, which has been burning for decades in the middle of the vast Karakum desert, has become one of the main tourist attractions in the secretive ex-Soviet country. (Photo by Igor Sasin/AFP Photo)
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