Air pollution killing thousands of Europeans annually

BRUSSELS - Reducing air pollution to World Health Organisation-recommended levels in the EU could prevent 51,213 premature deaths each year, or as much as 125,000 if regulators went beyond targets, according to a new study published in leading medical journal The Lancet Wednesday.

Cities in northern Italy, Poland, and the Czech Republic had the highest associated mortalities.

Some 2,500 premature deaths a year also occurred in Paris, the study said.

 

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