BEIJING (Reuters) - Over 80 children in a poor corner of southwestern China have been poisoned by lead from illegal smelters, the latest in a string of heavy metal pollution cases that have made hundreds sick over the last year.
Tests showed at least 84 children from Heqing county in Yunnan province had dangerously high levels of lead in their blood, an online statement issued on Sunday by the Heqing local government said (www.heqing.gov.cn).
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