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Boy dies in Mexico after falling in contaminated river

Posted : Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:00:07 GMT
By : DPA
Category : America (World)
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Mexico City - An 8-year-old boy died at a hospital in the western Mexican state of Jalisco after falling into a contaminated river and being poisoned with a substance that could be arsenic, Mexican media reported Friday. The boy fell into the Santiago river, in the municipality of El Salto, on January 27. He was rescued from the water, then spent 19 days in a coma before his death.

The autopsy carried out by the Jalisco Institute of Forensic Science confirmed that he died of damages caused by a chemical agent yet to be identified. A previous study had revealed that there was arsenic in his bloodstream.

The boy's death caused protests from residents of the area.

"We demand the cleaning-up of the Santiago river, that the government listens to us, that the Health Ministry commits to carry out an epidemiological study of the damage caused in El Salto, that they explain to us why so many deaths, and the causes of the deaths and the cases of leukaemia," said resident Victor Martinez Herrera, quoted in the daily La Jornada.

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