Moscow’s killer smog

LAST UPDATED AT 13:56 ON Tue 10 Aug 2010

People wearing facemasks in Moscow's Red Square. Both tourists and locals have taken to wearing the protective masks as a toxic fog of poisonous smoke continues to blanket the Russian capital, following an outbreak of wildfires nearby.

In pictures: Deaths double in the Russian capital
thanks to toxic fumes from ongoing
wildfires and record heat levels

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