11 suspected of dumping tons of trash in Yangtze

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Eleven suspects from Zhejiang province who made nearly 800,000 yuan ($115,000) from illegally dumping more than 2,900 metric tons of household waste into the Yangtze River in Jiangsu province have been captured by police.

Police in Zhejiang's Jiaxing city said on Sunday after a preliminary investigation that one dumping case occurred on Dec 8, when more than 900 tons of garbage was dumped from a ship into the river in Nantong city. Another occurred on Dec 17, when more than 2,000 tons of garbage was dumped in the river by two ships in Taicang city, according to police.