Schools and coal plants close as toxic smog chokes Delhi and Lahore

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India's capital shuts schools and coal plants as it battles dangerous levels of air pollution that also left Lahore in neighbouring Pakistan choking on acrid smog

Lahore residents have built their own purifiers and filed lawsuits against government officials in desperate bids to clean the air.

Delhi also ordered the closure until the end of the month of six of 11 coal-fired power plants surrounding the metropolis in a bid to tackle the filthy air. The commission also said that at least half of government workers were being sent home and private firms should follow suit. The order came days after the Delhi government pushed back against a call by India's Supreme Court to declare the city's first "pollution lockdown", which would restrict the population to their homes.Lahore's PM2.5 at dangerous levels

In recent years, Lahore residents have built their own purifiers and filed lawsuits against government officials in desperate bids to clean the air.

 

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