Russian metals company says discharge responsible for turning river blood red

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By The Associated Press Staff, September 13, 2016 

MOSCOW – A Russian metals company says that the waters in a Siberian river turned red last week because of discharge from a metals smelter there.

Norilsk Nickel, the world’s largest nickel producer, said in a statement late Monday that a dike at a waste storage facility at its Nadezhdinskaya plant overflowed last week because of torrential rain.

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