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Gavin Blackburn

Malaysia declares air quality emergency as haze linked to Indonesia fires reaches critical level

Malaysia declared an emergency in a town in Sarawak state on Borneo Island on Friday after air pollution breached the country's emergency-level threshold linked to fires in neighbouring Indonesia.

The Air Pollutant Index in Serian, a small agricultural town of just under 90,000 near the border of Indonesia's Kalimantan province, surged to 521 on Friday, according to Malaysia's environment department.

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