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Hungary jails heads of company over disastrous toxic spill

Hungary jails heads of company over disastrous toxic spill

A Hungarian court has handed down jail sentences to the heads of a company responsible for one of the country's worst environmental disasters.

Ten people were killed and rivers were destroyed when more than a million cubic metres of toxic sludge burst from a reservoir at a plant of MAL Hungarian Aluminium in 2010.

The company's two directors were sentenced to two and a half years in prison for endangering the public by criminal negligence.

Al Jazeera's Charlie Angela reports.

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