Tuesday, September 8, 2009
A deadly gas given off by seaweed may have killed a lorry driver who was transporting the material from a beach.
The noxious rotting sea lettuce has already resulted in a horse dying on the sands of Binic, Brittany, it's been reported.
It was initially thought the 48-year-old driver had died of a heart attack, but now worried investigators are carrying out a full-scale examination to establish if the seaweed was to blame.
Mayor Christian Urvoy told the Mirror: "We want to know if we should safeguard workers in future."
The excess seaweed is being put down to local farms putting too many chemicals into the soil.
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/world/article.html?Killer_seaweed_may_have_poisoned_driver&in_article_id=732966&in_page_id=64
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