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Four detained for dumping 2000-tonne garbage into E China river

Xinhua, December 23, 2016 Adjust font size:

Four people were detained Thursday for dumping more than 2,000 tonnes of garbage into the Yangtze River section at Taicang City, east China's Jiangsu Province.

Police in Taicang city said the four worked for a garbage disposal company in east China's Zhejiang Province. They transported the garbage by ship from Zhejiang to neighboring Jiangsu on Saturday night to dump it.

Shanghai, southeast of Taicang, also reported floating garbage in its waters. Endi