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Adivasi child Guddia Das (7) cannot talk, walk or sit and will need constant care for the rest of her life. Her parents think the water from the village well was contaminated with radiation from the nearby uranium mines or tailing ponds and genetic defects resulted. Her father Chhatua has become an anti mining activist and has found over 100 cases similar to his daughter's in a 4km radius of his village.
Robert Wallis/Panos Pictures/Felix Features 8 Jan 2006
Jharkhand State