Chemical plant blast contaminates river
(newsphoto)
Updated: 2005-11-24 06:59

Dead fish can be seen in the Songhua River as the State Environment Protection Administration confirmed Wednesday that pollutants containing benzene and nitrobenzene contaminated the river after a chemical-plant blast at the upper reaches in Northeast China. An 80-kilometre swathe of polluted water was expected to reach the water-sourcing area of Harbin which was forced to cut off water supply for four days. [newsphoto]