Chinese authorities ordered a chemical factory to close on Sunday after more than 12,000 demonstrators confronted riot police, demanding the plant’s relocation amid health fears.
Scuffles broke out between police and protesters, mostly young people, in the public square outside the municipal government offices in Dalian, Liaoning province.
Public anger in the north-east Chinese city erupted after the Fujia Chemical Plant, which produces the toxic chemical paraxylene, or PX, came close to being inundated with sea water during a storm last week.
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