27 April 2015

National

The People Of The Fallout

In Khetolai, the village closest to the Pokhran nuclear test site, cancer is felling people and cattle. No one cares.





Radiation Village? Khetolai is the village lying closest to the Pokhran nuclear test site Villagers, mostly Bishnois, say there are many cases of cancer in the area. Exposure to radiation from the blasts is an obvious inference to make. Many, including children, have died of cancer. Women speak of high incidence of breast...