By Associated Press Health officials on Wednesday confiscated and burned hundreds of contaminated fish plucked by hungry Romanians from a river polluted by a cyanide spill.
None is seriously ill.
An employee of Pieta, a private company, was later arrested and charged with causing the spill. Prosecutors said the man was in charge of dismantling tanks containing cyanide belonging to chemical company Metadet. The tanks were to be used for recycling purposes. Some three tons of bad fish have been collected from the river and homes, said Dr. Nicolae Trinca, head of the health authority department in the northeastern city of Iasi. Many people have ignored the warnings, thinking, 'It won't happen to me.