Villagers in poison fear
By Xu Chi |
April 25, 2011, Monday
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Police are investigating claims that someone poisoned a village's main source of water in Zhejiang Province after an unidentified powder was found at the bottom of a storage tank.
The Liangxi Village's more than 1,700 residents now collect water delivered by fire trucks every day as they dare not drink the water from the tank, China News Service reported yesterday.
The villagers said they believed the blue powder was highly toxic pesticide.
It was found in a tank that supplies fresh water to about 5,000 people living in Liangxi and nearby villages, the report said.
"Fortunately we discovered the powder during the annual tank cleaning work," a tank cleaner said.
Village officials issued a public warning immediately after the discovery on Saturday, warning villagers not to drink the water from the tank before they had run tests to determined whether the powder was harmful or not.
Some villagers also found the same powder spread on the ground around the tank and a tree branch which appeared to be blue, a sign, they believed, that someone had used the branch to stir the power before adding it to the water in the tank.
One villager told the news agency that he collected water from the tank five days ago using an electric cooking pot, and now found that mysterious red marks appeared on it.
The villager said so far he didn't feel any discomfort after drinking the water, the report said.
Zhejiang police said they were still trying to find out what the suspicious powder was to see whether it was poisonous or not.
The case was still under investigation, the report said.
The Liangxi Village's more than 1,700 residents now collect water delivered by fire trucks every day as they dare not drink the water from the tank, China News Service reported yesterday.
The villagers said they believed the blue powder was highly toxic pesticide.
It was found in a tank that supplies fresh water to about 5,000 people living in Liangxi and nearby villages, the report said.
"Fortunately we discovered the powder during the annual tank cleaning work," a tank cleaner said.
Village officials issued a public warning immediately after the discovery on Saturday, warning villagers not to drink the water from the tank before they had run tests to determined whether the powder was harmful or not.
Some villagers also found the same powder spread on the ground around the tank and a tree branch which appeared to be blue, a sign, they believed, that someone had used the branch to stir the power before adding it to the water in the tank.
One villager told the news agency that he collected water from the tank five days ago using an electric cooking pot, and now found that mysterious red marks appeared on it.
The villager said so far he didn't feel any discomfort after drinking the water, the report said.
Zhejiang police said they were still trying to find out what the suspicious powder was to see whether it was poisonous or not.
The case was still under investigation, the report said.
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