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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Philip Oltermann and agencies

Poland pulls 100 tonnes of dead fish from Oder river after mystery mass die-off

Workers in Poland use an excavator and a dam to pull out dead fish from the Oder river.
Workers in Poland use an excavator and a dam to pull out dead fish from the Oder river after a mass die-off. Photograph: Marcin Bielecki/AFP/Getty Images

Polish firefighters have recovered 100 tonnes of dead fish from the Oder river running through Germany and Poland, deepening concerns of an environmental disaster for which no cause has yet been identified.

“We’d never had an operation of this scope on a river before,” said Monika Nowakowska-Drynda from the national firefighter press office on Tuesday.

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