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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) - A government commission investigating a deadly toxic waste scandal on Thursday blamed the tragedy on negligence and corruption by senior officials and an ill-equipped company set up solely to dump the waste.
Officials say 10 people died and more than 100,000 sought medical treatment after hundreds of tons of waste were offloaded in Abidjan on Aug. 19 from a vessel chartered by the Dutch commodities trading company Trafigura Beheer BV.
An Ivorian company called Tommy loaded the waste on special trucks and dumped it at 17 sites around the city, in some places just yards from homes, prompting whole neighborhoods to flee.
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