Reporters banned from Chinese village

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By BBC World News
August 25, 2009

Police and local government officials in China have swamped a village at the centre of a lead poisoning case in Changqing, which left hundreds of children sick.

Villagers are forbidden from speaking to journalists, and reporters attempting to visit the area are being detained and questioned by the police.

Quentin Sommerville was one of those detained in Bao Ji, a township of Changqing.

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