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Hundreds of animals found dead in Henan
Published on Apr 18, 2013
Pigs lying dead in Henan. Chemical factories suspected to be responsible for the deaths have been ordered to suspend production. -- PHOTO: SINA WEIBO
BEIJING - Hundreds more pigs have been found dead in China - this time in the central part of the country, together with dogs, cats, rats and goats - after more than 16,000 pigs were found in Shanghai last month.
The authorities said 410 pigs and 122 dogs were found dead on Monday in homes and at farms in Dongtun village in Yanshi city of central Henan province.
The local authorities said chemical factories in the area suspected to be responsible for the deaths have been ordered to suspend production.
The authorities stressed that the deaths have nothing to do with the bird flu virus that recently spread to 82 Chinese - most of them in eastern China - killing 16 of them so far.
Last month, more than 16,000 dead pigs were found in rivers supplying water to Shanghai. The dumping has not been explained.
In Yanshi, experts have arrived to help villagers disinfect the animal carcasses and dispose of them by burial or burning, reported the Chinese media yesterday.
Agricultural experts also disinfected all the farms in Dongtun, and doctors have conducted health checks, confirming that no villager had caught any disease.
The level of toxic gases in the air and the quality of the local drinking sources were also checked and all were found to be normal.
The government said organs of the animals had been sent to Henan Technological University for examination and it will release the results soon.
Some villagers told a reporter from the Guangzhou-based Nanfang Metropolitan Daily that a factory producing gold fluoride for the making of medicine was to blame as it had been furtively spewing smoke after nightfall and releasing waste gas and polluted water into the environment since it moved in some 10 years ago.
"And the foul smells from the factory got worse recently," they added.
Villagers also depicted to the media the repulsive spectacle of hundreds of dead animals lying all over the streets and hillsides, spreading loathsome smells and attracting swarms of flies.
"All four-legged creatures in the village have died overnight, or are dying," a villager surnamed Liu told Nanfang.
"Two-thirds of the 300 pigs I bred are gone and the rest will be going soon," another villager surnamed Sung told a reporter from Dahe, the main official news website of Henan.
Mr Sung said he saw some villagers burying a pack of high-priced mastiffs - a kind of large strong dog normally bred in Tibet - which they had kept.
XINHUA, ASSOCIATED PRESS
Hundreds of animals found dead in Henan
Published on Apr 18, 2013
Pigs lying dead in Henan. Chemical factories suspected to be responsible for the deaths have been ordered to suspend production. -- PHOTO: SINA WEIBO
BEIJING - Hundreds more pigs have been found dead in China - this time in the central part of the country, together with dogs, cats, rats and goats - after more than 16,000 pigs were found in Shanghai last month.
The authorities said 410 pigs and 122 dogs were found dead on Monday in homes and at farms in Dongtun village in Yanshi city of central Henan province.
The local authorities said chemical factories in the area suspected to be responsible for the deaths have been ordered to suspend production.
The authorities stressed that the deaths have nothing to do with the bird flu virus that recently spread to 82 Chinese - most of them in eastern China - killing 16 of them so far.
Last month, more than 16,000 dead pigs were found in rivers supplying water to Shanghai. The dumping has not been explained.
In Yanshi, experts have arrived to help villagers disinfect the animal carcasses and dispose of them by burial or burning, reported the Chinese media yesterday.
Agricultural experts also disinfected all the farms in Dongtun, and doctors have conducted health checks, confirming that no villager had caught any disease.
The level of toxic gases in the air and the quality of the local drinking sources were also checked and all were found to be normal.
The government said organs of the animals had been sent to Henan Technological University for examination and it will release the results soon.
Some villagers told a reporter from the Guangzhou-based Nanfang Metropolitan Daily that a factory producing gold fluoride for the making of medicine was to blame as it had been furtively spewing smoke after nightfall and releasing waste gas and polluted water into the environment since it moved in some 10 years ago.
"And the foul smells from the factory got worse recently," they added.
Villagers also depicted to the media the repulsive spectacle of hundreds of dead animals lying all over the streets and hillsides, spreading loathsome smells and attracting swarms of flies.
"All four-legged creatures in the village have died overnight, or are dying," a villager surnamed Liu told Nanfang.
"Two-thirds of the 300 pigs I bred are gone and the rest will be going soon," another villager surnamed Sung told a reporter from Dahe, the main official news website of Henan.
Mr Sung said he saw some villagers burying a pack of high-priced mastiffs - a kind of large strong dog normally bred in Tibet - which they had kept.
XINHUA, ASSOCIATED PRESS