Toxic Smog Doubles Moscow Deaths (700 A Day Since Last Week)

[moksha]

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2010/08/20108921391511399.html

Toxic smog doubles Moscow deaths
Source: Al Jazeera

The death toll in Moscow, Russia's capital, has doubled recently as wildfires blanketed the capital with toxic smoke amid the country's worst heat wave in over a century.

An average of 700 people have died each day in the city since late last week due to the smog, which emanated from hundreds of raging wildfires that devastated towns and villages in the region, authorities say.

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