It just happened to sit atop 21,000 tons of toxicindustrialwaste that had been buried underground in the 1940s and '50s by a local company.
到了四五十年代，碰巧当地一家公司原本埋在地下的2万1千吨有毒工业废料露出了地面。
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China Daily reports that more than 5, 000 tons of highly toxicindustrialwaste were dumped illegally in rural areas in Yunnan province, causing livestock deaths and soil and water pollution.
The accident occurred Monday when the retaining walls of a reservoir at an aluminum plant in Ajka in western Hungary collapsed, unleashing a toxic soup of industrialwaste through seven villages.