Beijing: Workers began cleaning up a chemical spill in northeastern China Thursday after more than 3,000 containers of chemicals were washed into a river by the worst floods to hit the country in more than a decade. The barrels, containing a flammable chemical used to make rubber and adhesives, tumbled into the Songhua River near Jilin city in Jilin province after a flood swept through a local factory, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. Only about 400 barrels had been recovered as of...
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