Water pollution leaves 194 poisoned in Shaanxi village
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2004-06-05 21:29

A total of 194 people at a village in Shaanxi Province were found poisoned in the last four days and preliminary indicated the mass poisoning case might be resulted from water pollution, police said Saturday.

Changba Village in Hanyin County of Shaanxi Province has 513 households with 1,742 residents. Starting from June 1, some villagers began to show the symptoms of fever, dizzy and diarrhea, but doctors can not tell the cause of the sickness.

The number rose to 60 on June 3 and climbed to 194 by Friday, and the police have ruled out the possibility of food poisoning.

The county government has set up a working group consisting of 40 people from the public security, health and quarantine departments to investigate the case.

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