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Article: Water Bearing Arsenic Gas Kills 11 Bangladeshis
- Article from:
- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- September 5, 1996
CopyrightCopyright 1996 Xinhua English Newswire. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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At least 11 people have died recently in a village of the Pabna
district in western Bangladesh after drinking tube-well water
bearing
arsenic gas.
Health officials confirmed today that except for the 11 dead,
some
100 people had fallen sick due to the poisonous effect of the gas in
different areas of the district.
Earlier, a 6-member ...
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