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Mongolia's Children Choke In Toxic Pollution

The toxic smog that settles over the Mongolian capital every winter has been a suffocating problem for well over a decade (Credit: AFP)

As she watched her five-month-old son lying in intensive care, wires and tubes crisscrossing his tiny body, Uyanga cursed her hometown Ulaanbaatar and its chronic pollution.

The toxic smog that settles over the Mongolian capital every winter has been a suffocating problem for more than a decade that successive governments have failed to dispel.

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