China defends handling of spill that contaminated city's water

Friday, November 25, 2005

HARBIN, China -- China's government defended its handling of a chemical plant explosion that sent a 50-mile-long toxic slick of river water coursing through a major city Thursday and blamed the disaster on a subsidiary of a state-owned oil company.

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