CHINA: AND so it begins : hundreds of thousands dead fish found in river near explosion site

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Television news shows the surface of China’s River Hai coated in dead sticklebacks – a scene which Deng Xiaowen, the head of Tianjin’s environment monitoring centre, said ‘was not uncommon’. Chinese authorities have denied that the deaths of thousands of fish near the scene of a catastrophic industrial disaster are linked to last week’s chemical explosions in Tianjin which killed at least 114 people