Sunday, June 20, 2010

Children die from lead poisoning due to gold mining in Nigeria

YARGALMA, Nigeria | Mound after tiny mound of red clay earth dots the cemetery on the outskirts of this impoverished Nigerian village where grieving parents come to pray.

Children began falling ill months ago here and in a half-dozen other villages in this remote northern region on the cusp of the Sahara Desert. Some could not stand, some went blind or deaf.

 
Then they began dying....
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