Chinese Chemical Spill Poisons 8 People in Russia
(Dec. 01, 2005)
Created: 30.11.2005
(boxun.com)
A local prosecutor' s office in Russia’s Amur region has been investigating a report about eight people allegedly poisoned by a toxic chemical spill flowing downriver from China after a plant explosion in Jilin on Nov. 13, Gazeta.ru reported.
Russia’s emergency agency said earlier the benzene spill would reach Russia’s far-eastern regions only in the beginning of December. The local authorities said on Wednesday that the ecological situation in the region is stable.
About 100 tons of benzene were spewed into the Songhua River flowing into the Heilong River, which crosses the border and becomes the Amur in Russia, after the explosion.
Harbin, a major Chinese city of 3.8 million people, suffered a five-day shutdown of water supplies because of the chemical spill, provoking panic-buying of bottled drinking water. Over the weekend China’s leader Hu Jintao apologized to the Chinese public and to Russia.
On Monday, a group of Russian experts flew to Harbin to check on the toxic spill’s advance and the pollution levels.
http://www.mosnews.com/news/2005/11/30/amurpoison.shtml
(boxun.com)
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