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Naples Trash Crisis

Translation:

Announcer: Demonstrations continue in the city of Naples Italy
about the accumulation of trash.

Correspondent: Following the continuing trash crisis in the city of
Naples Italy hundreds of people living in this city have clashed with
the police for the 6th consecutive night and have set fire to public
transportation vehicles.

In recent clashes between riot police and Naples protestors a
number of people have been injured and taken to the hospital. In this
unrest angry Neopolitians even set fire to a fire truck that was there
to put out the fires.

There are now more than 100 tons of trash piled in the streets of
Naples and its environs and city officials are unable to remove it.
Due to the environmental pollution the students of Naples are not
going to school. To resolve the crisis Italy's Prime Minister Romano
Prodi sent the Italian army to this city to clean the streets, and
especially the putrified trash that accumulated in front of the schools last
week.

A German company is taking some of the trash to Germany to be
burned, at a price of 200 Euros per ton. This crisis has cause some
of the people in this city to take action to clean their city
themselves.

posted by johncgreen@gmail.com @ 6:13 AM