Sludge spill in Hungary
The BBC’s Nick Thorpe is in Kolontar, in southwestern Hungary, where caustic sludge broke through a waste reservoir at an alumina plant and appears to be headed toward the Danube River. The event is being called Europe’s worst environmental disaster in decades.
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