ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Tonnes of deadly toxic waste which killed 10 people and made thousands ill in Ivory Coast were shipped out of the West African country in sealed containers, bound for a treatment plant in France.
The poisonous chemical waste was dumped in August in open-air sites around Abidjan, economic capital of the world's top cocoa grower, after being unloaded from an oil tanker.
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