Photos: Cities and villages surrounded by pollution (7)

（People's Daily Online） 07:51, January 17, 2013

The tunnel discharging the leaked aniline from a chemical plant in Shanxi is dried up, and buried with lime powder on Jan. 6, 2013.

Edited and translated by Huang Jin, People's Daily Online

About 9 tons of aniline was leaked from a chemical plant owned by the Tianji Coal Chemical Industry Group into Zhuozhang River due to tube ruptures on Dec. 31, 2012. The leakage contaminated the drinking water supply in downstream Handan in neighboring Hebei province, which affected more than 1 million people. The delayed response of the contamination caused panic in Handan, where residents ransacked stores for bottled water.

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