WHO urges Kosovo to close lead-contaminated camps
A World Health Organization official says Kosovo must close down lead-contaminated camps in the tiny Balkan country's industrial north where about 100 Gypsy families live.
(KosovoCompromise staff) Wednesday, February 04, 2009
WHO regional director Dorit Nitzan says tests have shown levels of lead contamination are "severe" though they are falling.
Nitzan said the area should be declared hazardous for humans, and its residents should be moved.
The makeshift camps are located near a smelter that is part of the Trepca mining complex in the ethnically divided town of Mitrovica.
The Roma were expelled from their homes in southern Kosovska Mitrobica by Albanian extremists in 1999.
