A toxic toll on villagers


No ray of hope: Roshan, whose eyesight is deteriorating, holds his book close as he reads along with his classmates at the primary school in his village. - AFP

Those living in India’s remote northwest are suffering from learning disabilities and a host of medical ailments because of contaminants that have seeped into the water they use.

THROUGH his bloodshot, ruined eyes, ten-year-old Roshan Singh struggles to read his favourite comic book before getting ready for school near Dona Nanka, a remote and desolate village along the Indian-Pakistan border.

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