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                             West Lake dead fish toll reaches 200 tonnes
                              06 October 2016 | 04:05:00 PM 
                             Over 200 tonnes of dead fish have been recovered from West Lake. Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has urged Hanoi authorities to find out the cause of the incident.
                             By Quang Phong | 
dtinews.vn
 
 
   
 
Fish dead in the West Lake
 
According to Vietnam National  Committee of Search and Rescue, military forces and Hanoi’s agencies had  collected 76 tonnes of dead fish in the West Lake by late October 3,  much higher than the reported figure of around 10 tonnes by October 2.  The figure has risen to 200 tonnes as of the morning of October 4.
 
The mass fish deaths started to be  seen in the lake from October 1, leaving the lake surface covered with a  layer of floating dead fish.
 
A preliminary report from the Hanoi  People’s Committee indicated that oxygen depletion was partially  responsible for the mass death fish in the West Lake.
 
In an early attempt to fix the  situation on Sunday, Hanoi authorities instructed the Hanoi Urban  Environment Ltd, Co to install 40 aeration devices to provide oxygen to  save fish in the lake.
  Health department staff were  dispatched to spray chemicals to sterilise areas around the lake.  Environmental police also took samples of the dead fish and lake water  to conduct tests.
 
                             
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