NSTworld Schools shut in Lahore as city chokes in toxic smog
Every November, a combination of industrial pollution, burning waste and farm fires in neighbouring India fouls the air in Pakistan’s cultural capital, making it one of the world’s most polluted cities.
But on Friday the Air Quality Index from a monitoring station at the United States’ consulate hit a year-high 451 out of a possible 500, a level considered “hazardous” and where even healthy people are advised to stay indoors. Men wearing protective masks wait for a bus in Lahore, Pakistan November 22, 2019. - REUTERS/Mohsin Raza
“I am personally suffering an eye infection and skin allergies due to smog,” said Zainab Khan, a university student in the city of more than 11 million.
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