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In this Aug. 18, 2009 file photo, villagers with their children wait for blood tests after the Dongling Lead and Zinc Smelting Co. smelting plant poisoned hundred children in Baoji city, west of Xi'an, Shaanxi province, China.
Thursday, Jun. 16, 2011

Open quoteWe wanted this child to have everything ... That's why we poisoned ourselves at this factory. Now it turns out the child is poisoned too. Close quote

  • HAN ZONGYUAN,
  • a Chinese factory worker and father of a 3-year-old who has absorbed enough lead to diminish her intellectual capacity; hundreds have been poisoned by emissions from a lead-acid battery factory in Mengxi village
Photo: AP Photo / Andy Wong | Source: New York Times