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Press 'The gardens and streets were covered in about 15 cm of
red sludge. People were trying to wash it off their homes and
their belongings with soap and water. Others were simply packing
up. I tried to wash the sludge off my rubber boots that night
but couldn't. The red just wouldn't come off,' says Gábor
Figeczky, acting head of the Worldwide Fund for Nature in
Hungary. On 4 October 2010 one of the worst toxic spill
accidents in Europe of recent years occurred near the city of
Ajka in Veszprem County, Hungary, approximately 160 km south-
west of Budapest. As a consequenc