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Updated Friday, July 30, 2010 10:07 am TWN, AP

Chinese miner says VP detained after toxic spill

BEIJING -- A major Chinese mining company said Thursday that one of its vice presidents has been detained by police in connection with a spill of copper mine waste that poisoned a river near the country's southeast coast.

Zijin Mining Group received notice Wednesday that Chen Jiahong was detained “as a suspect in relation to the major pollution accident,” the company said in a statement to the Hong Kong stock exchange. It gave no other details.

The June 3 leak into the Ting River in Fujian province on China's southeast coast killed fish and fouled drinking water for 60,000 people. The waste flowed into crowded Guangdong province, which abuts Hong Kong.

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