For safety's sake road salt must be under lock and key

AMID THE HEAVY snowfall in the southern provinces, some of the bags of industrial salt the local road management agencies have stored by the roadsides ready for spreading to melt snow and ice have been stolen. Hebnews.cn comments:

Industrial salt is poisonous and might be life threatening if eaten. That's why great efforts have been made to track down those who took the salt.

In Changzhou in East China's Jiangsu province, the local police found that three elderly women had stolen it, with one of them saying no one was there watching it when she took the salt away.