Plant stored toxic waste, endangering residents
By Yan Jie | China Daily | Updated: 2011-08-17 08:08
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Wang Jianyou, a resident of Xinglong village, shows on Sunday the bugs he eats every day. Wang, a lung cancer patient, believes eating 50 bugs a day will help to relieve the symptoms of his illness. He said six to seven residents in his village die from cancer every year, which he suspects to be the result of pollution from the company Yunnan Luliang Chemical Industry. Ren Dong / China News Service |
BEIJING - A chemical plant implicated in a major dumping investigation in Southwest China has admitted to storing huge amounts of toxic waste for decades, authorities said on Tuesday.
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