Soil Contamination Prompts Evacuations
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Children were evacuated from three villages in southern Ukraine after soil in the surrounding area was found to be contaminated with poisonous chemicals, officials said. More than 330 people, including 170 children, have been hospitalized after being exposed to nitrate poisons in the soil in the past three weeks, health officials have said.
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