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4 Dead, 120 Injured In Hungarian Toxic Sludge Flood – CBS News
Hungary declared a state of emergency in three counties Tuesday after a flood of toxic red sludge from an alumina plant engulfed several towns and burned people through their clothes. One official called it “an ecological disaster” that may threaten the Danube and other key rivers.
The toll rose to four dead, six missing and at least 120 people injured after a reservoir failed Monday at the Ajkai Timfoldgyar plant in Ajka, a town 100 miles (160 kilometers) southwest of Budapest, the capital.
Several hundred tons of plaster were being poured into the Marcal River to bind the toxic sludge and prevent it from flowing on, the National Disaster Management Directorate said.
So far, about 35.3 million cubic feet (1 million cubic meters) of sludge has leaked from the reservoir, affecting an estimated 15.4 square miles (40 square kilometers), Environmental Affairs State Secretary Zoltan Illes told the state news wire MTI.
Illes called the flood an “ecological catastrophe” and said the sludge could reach the Raba and Danube rivers. He suspended activity at the plant and ordered the company to repair the damaged reservoir.
The disaster agency said 390 residents had to be temporarily relocated and 110 were rescued from the flooded towns, including Kolontal, Devecser and Somlovasarhely. Firefighters and soldiers swept through the region Tuesday carrying out cleanup tasks with bulldozers.
The sludge, a waste product in aluminum production, contains heavy metals and is toxic if ingested. Many of the injured sustained burns as the sludge seeped through their clothes, and two faced life-threatening conditions. Two women, a young man and a 3-year-old child were killed in the flooding.
The injured were being monitored because the chemical burns caused by the sludge could take days to emerge and what may seem like superficial injuries could later cause damage to deeper tissue, Dr. Peter Jakabos of Gyor hospital, where several of the injured were taken, told state television.
In Devecser, the sludge in Tunde Erdelyi’s house was still five feet (1.5 meters) high Tuesday and rescue workers had to use an ax to cut through her living room door to let the red liquid flow out.
“When I heard the rumble of the flood, all the time I had was to jump out the window and run to higher ground,” said a tearful Erdelyi, still shocked by the events but grateful that the family rabbit and cat were safe.
Robert Kis, Erdelyi’s husband, said his uncle had been taken to Budapest by helicopter after the sludge “burned him to the bone.” The toxic flood overturned Erdelyi’s car and pushed it 30 yards (meters) to the back of the garden while her husband’s van was lifted up onto a fence.
Erdelyi, a seamstress, was hoping the flood spared the shop in town where she worked, her family’s main source of income.
In neighboring Kolontal, the town closest to the aluminum plant, 61-year old widow Erzsebet Veingartner was in her kitchen when the sludge flood hit Monday afternoon.
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12 Terror Suspects Arrested In France – Associated Press
Police in southern France arrested 12 suspects in sweeps against suspected Islamic terrorists networks on Tuesday, including three men linked to a network recruiting fighters for Afghanistan.
The roundups were part of two entirely different counterterrorism cases under investigation by French judges, and fell on the same day only by coincidence, one police official in Paris said.
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Top New Jersey Democrat Official Slaps 68-Year-Old Female GOP Staffer – Gateway Pundit
An unhinged staffer for liberal Rep. Frank Pallone slapped a 68-year-old female GOP staffer who was helping to put up campaign signs for Republican Anna C. Little. It was caught on tape.
According to Russell Cote, Little’s field operations director, the altercation took place at approximately 11:30 p.m. on First Avenue in Atlantic Highlands, not far from Little’s campaign headquarters.
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Harry Reid Trailing Sharron Angle In Nevada – The Examiner
Democrat Senator and leftwing extremist Harry Reid is falling even farther behind Republican rival Sharron Angle in the polls, according to results announced by Bill Hemmer of Fox News. This is a major break away for Angle, who now leads Senator Reid 49% to 46%.
Although the lead is within the margin of error of the polls, this is the first time that Angel has had more than a one point lead.
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Thousands Fill National Shrine For Md. Navy SEAL Funeral – Washington Examiner
More than 3,500 people attended Monday’s funeral for Navy SEAL Brendan Looney, who was later buried at Arlington National Cemetery next to his best friend and Naval Academy roommate, Travis Manion.
Described as a role model who always pushed those around him to be their best, Looney, 29, died Sept. 21 with eight other military personnel in an accidental helicopter crash in the Zabul province of Afghanistan.
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‘Repeal Obamacare’ Effort Resumes Surge – WorldNetDaily
The November election is getting closer. And so is the possibility that Obamacare – with its “death panels,” government intervention in health-care decisions and mandates for all consumers to buy the insurance the government specifies – simply will be repealed.
The effort has been assembled by U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, whose discharge petition would call for a new House vote on the proposal.
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Indonesia Flash Floods Kill 56 – Times Of India
At least 56 people were killed and 24 remain missing after flash floods in a remote region of Indonesia’s West Papua province, a disaster management official said on Tuesday.
The floods were unleashed early on Monday after torrential downpours that began late Sunday in West Papua’s Teluk Wondama district. Kisianto said that 81 people were seriously injured.
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Life In Prison For Would-Be Times Square Bomber – New York Times
Faisal Shahzad, who pleaded guilty to trying to blow up a sport utility vehicle carrying a homemade bomb in May in Times Square, thick with Saturday visitors, was sentenced on Tuesday morning to spend the rest of his life in prison.
Remaining defiant, and smirking as the sentence was read, he told the court: “Brace yourselves, because the war with Muslims has just begun.”
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