Reuters: Water supplies were cut for a time to part of the north-eastern Chinese city of Jilin, after a flood washed thousands of barrels of a dangerous chemical from a factory into the area's main river, state media said today. A "small quantity" of two pollutants produced by the plant were found in the Songhua river, and a reporter smelt a strange odour as he watched dozens of the metal containers float through downtown Jilin, the official Xinhua agency said. It was not clear how well ......
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3,000 chemical barrels washed into Chinese river
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 29th, 2010
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