Buildings inside the Forbidden City are seen amid heavy smog under a red alert for air pollution, in Beijing, China, December 19, 2015. - Reuters
BEIJING, Dec 19, 2015 (AFP) - Beijing issued its second-ever red alert for smog and put its emergency response plan into action once again as severe pollution hit China’s capital on Saturday.
The notice from the capital’s environmental bureau ordered factories to close and pulled half of all private cars off the streets, among other measures, as bad air flooded into the city for the third "airpocalypse" of the month. The red alert, the highest tier of a four-colour warning system, will last from Saturday to Tuesday, according to a statement on the Beijing Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau’s website.
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