Water supply shut in second Chinese city
(AP)
Updated: 2005-12-04 16:37

Residents walk across the frozen Songhua River at Jiamusi, in China's northeast Heilongjiang province Sunday, Dec. 4, 2005. A water plant in Jiamusi, a city of about 480,000 people, was shut down Friday, as China's chief environmental regulator resigned, taking the blame for a chemical spill into the Songhua River which has forced five Chinese cities to stop water supply. The slick of toxic benzene is expected to arrive in Jiamusi Tuesday. [AP] Residents walk across the frozen Songhua River at Jiamusi, in China's northeast Heilongjiang province Sunday, Dec. 4, 2005. A water plant in Jiamusi, a city of about 480,000 people, was shut down Friday, as China's chief environmental regulator resigned, taking the blame for a chemical spill into the Songhua River which has forced five Chinese cities to stop water supply. The slick of toxic benzene is expected to arrive in Jiamusi Tuesday. [AP]