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Vietnam punishes 4 officials over Formosa environmental disaster

This photograph taken on April 27, 2016, shows a woman collecting dead clams on a beach at Ky Anh district, in the central Vietnamese coastal province of Ha Tinh. More than 100 tonnes of clams have perished in central Vietnam, state media reported on April 28, 2016, as public outrage mounts over a possible toxic leak into the sea near an industrial zone. / AFP PHOTO / STR

Vietnam said on Thursday it would punish four officials over one of its worst environmental disasters, caused by a unit of Taiwan conglomerate Formosa Plastics, in the first action against government officials ten months after the accident.

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