Chinese Authorities Admit More Children Suffer Lead Poisening
(31 August 09-RV) An official Chinese newspaper said to day that hundreds of children
are suffering from lead poisoning in southwest China, the country's third such case
of mass sickening in the past month. Parents in Tongdu, a township in Yunnan
province's capital of Kunming, blamed the poisoning on a nearby industrial park while
local environmental officials attributed it to vehicle exhaust fumes. PIME Missionary
Father Bernardo Cevellera is the editor of AsiaNews agency. He said the problem is
that the government is so far silent in response to parents’ requests to move: