Toxic haze from Indonesian forest fires may have caused 100,000 deaths: report

By Jewel Topsfield
Updated September 20 2016 - 9:08am, first published 8:29am

Killer haze from forest fires that raged across Indonesia last year may have caused more than 100,000 premature deaths in Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia, according to a new report that suggests a drastically higher death toll than Indonesian government figures.

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