Three people died and 17 others required medical treatment after coming into contact with pockets of a discarded chemical illegally by a factory in eastern China, said Wednesday the local government.
Four of those affected by the waste were children playing near the substance, 2, 4 dinitrophenol, used in scientific research and the manufacture of explosives and pesticides, according to a government statement in Dongyang, a city 250 kilometers southwest Shanghai.
The researchers kept holding four people allegedly responsible for the poisoning, which occurred and Sunday, and city officials pledged to tighten the measures for waste chemicals.
According to a preliminary investigation, a chemical company in substances discarded plastic bags and these arrived illegally in a garbage collector, which in turn sold the bags to another collector. The three people who died were carrying the bags when they started to feel ill, according to the official statement.
It was not clear because it was collectors who bought the chemical waste or if they knew what was in the bags. The immigrants, who hardly have the means to survive by selling scrap recycling industry in the country, selling everything they can find no protective equipment or other precautionary measures.
Four of the injured needed intensive care, but the condition of 17 people was "basically stable", the government of Dongyang.
化学废物杀死3人
在中国
3人死亡和17人后，需要与一个废弃化学品的口袋东部的中国工厂非法接触医疗周三表示，当地政府。
受影响的废物是儿童近4个物质，2，4二硝基科研使用，炸药和农药生产演奏，根据东阳，城市西南250公里处政府的声明上海。
研究人员一直持有4人涉嫌负责中毒，发生和星期日，城市官员承诺收紧废弃化学品的措施。
据初步调查，在物质的化学公司丢弃的塑料袋，这些抵达垃圾收集器，从而出售运到另收集非法。谁的3人死亡，随身携带的包时，他们开始感到不适，据官方声明。
目前尚不清楚，因为它是收藏家买谁的化学废物，或者，如果他们知道自己的包了。移民，谁也难以继续生存的手段出售在该国的工业废料回收，销售一切他们能找到任何防护设备或其他预防措施。
四名受伤需要特别护理，但17人的状况“基本稳定”的项目，东阳政府。
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