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Protesting lead pollution,beaten bloody by police

Posted by on 2014/09/27. Filed under China,Headline News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

On August 12, 2014, more than one thousand villagers in Gangkou Township, Yiyang County, Jiangxi Province went to the Xingwang Corporation’s lead processing plant to protest and were beaten bloody by 20 carloads of police and armed thugs.

This lead processing plant was founded more than a year ago. More than 100 people in Gangkou Township have elevated lead levels in their blood, especially children. One child had a lead level of more than 430.

http://news.boxun.com/news/gb/china/2014/09/201409270548.shtml

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