Impure Water Kills 15
Associated Press
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka —
Inadequately treated water from a storage tank has killed 15 people and sent at least 100 to hospitals in the last 10 days near the coastal town of Puttalam, health officials said Sunday. Water-borne epidemics of diarrhea claim about 6,000 lives in Sri Lanka every year.
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