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Hungary scrambled Wednesday to contain a toxic mud spill that left four people dead and more than 100 injured in what is being described as an ecological catastrophe.
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 industrial waste through seven villages.
Locals in Devecser, Hungary, are salvaging what they can after an aluminium plant's toxic waste reservoir collapsed, killing four people and flooding seven nearby towns. Click to enlarge this image.
The devastation spread across an area of 40 square kilometers (15.4 square miles) in what officials say is Hungary's worst-ever chemical accident that has so far killed two adults and two children.
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