Hungary opens criminal inquiry on toxic flood
Friday, October 8, 2010 - 00:30
in Earth & Climate
The European Union calls on authorities to prevent the slurry from contaminating the Danube and spreading to other nations.Hungary on Wednesday opened a criminal investigation of the toxic sludge flood that burst out of an industrial reservoir, and the European Union urged emergency authorities to do everything they could to keep the slurry from reaching the Danube and affecting half a dozen other nations.