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Lead poisoning stokes tensions in Chinese town (AP)

Posted by Yahoo! News: World News at 19 August , 2009

Children affected by lead poisoning from the Dongling Lead and Zinc Smelting Co. plant receive medical treatment at a hospital in Fengxiang county, West of Xi'an, China, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2009. Dozens of police and plainclothes officers guarded the Chinese smelting plant in central Shaanxi on Wednesday, days after hundreds of villagers stormed the factory because more than 600 children from two nearby villages had been sickened by lead poisoning. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)AP - Farmer Wang Zhifan jabs a stubby finger toward the sprawling smelter blamed for poisoning hundreds of local children with lead. He bares his yellowed teeth and spits hard.


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