Thousands of fish die at old Summer Palace

Nearly 10,000 fish have died in rivers at China’s old Summer Palace, highlighting the environmental woes facing Beijing as it strives to clean up ahead of the 2008 Olympics, state press said Monday. The fish were found floating in the river at Yuanmingyuan Park over the weekend and, while the waterway has a foul stench, the exact cause of the pollution that killed them is not yet known, the Xinhua news agency said.

One worker at the park, a popular tourist attraction, has reportedly confessed to using too many pesticides on trees along one riverbank. However Xinhua said dead fish had been found along another river in a different section of the park, and there were no trees along its banks.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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