Anglo American faces huge class-action lawsuit over Zambia mine https://t.co/B8t1X1Ug7f
— FT Energy (@ftenergy) October 21, 2020
In 2017 I reported on perhaps the most distressing story I have ever covered
— Damian Carrington (@dpcarrington) October 21, 2020
Today, Anglo American is being sued over alleged mass lead poisoning of children in Kabwe, Zambia
The lead has damaged generations and 100,000 people still today, lawyers sayhttps://t.co/NFrTn8OLSX
Filed legal documents claim:
The public environmental health disaster left behind by Anglo means there are more than 100,000 children and women of childbearing age in Kabwe who are likely to have suffered lead poisoning as a result of pollution caused by Anglo.
