Source says twins attend special care classes and fight broke out after they refused to go to school, with mother believed to have hurt herself and sons with sharp objectEmergency personnel called in
This photo released by Banjarmasin Disaster Management Agency, shows a fire that razes through a land in Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan, Indonesia, Friday, Oct. 6, 2023. Indonesia denied Friday that forest and peat fires on Sumatra and Borneo islands were causing the haze in Malaysia, after the neighboring government sent a letter complaining about the air quality and asking to work together to deal with the fires.
"Up until this morning, we have not detected any transboundary haze,” Laksmi Dewanti, director general of climate change control at the Ministry of Environment and Forestry, said at a press briefing. Satellite imagery on Saturday showed more than 7,700 hotspots - seven times the number recorded a year ago, she said.
It mostly originates from natural or man-made fires in Indonesia and Malaysia during the dry season. Many of the blazes result from illegal burning to clear farmland for cash crops such as palm oil, a practice that persists despite years of government efforts to stamp it out. The Director General of Environmental Law Enforcement Rasio Ridho Sani said the government has"sealed” 35 plantation areas belonging to Indonesian, Malaysian and Singaporean companies and may revoke permits for those found to be repeat offenders.
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