There is more to this than is being released by Hungarian news agencies apparently.
I've been told by two Hungarian friends of mine who unfortunately have relatives in the affected area who they've yet to hear from, that the evacuation trucks are the old Urals and Zils from the early cold war, the medical teams have been mostly composed of local doctors and nurses and they are badly under equipped, to the point of having to use toilet paper and newspaper as bandages, the fumes around the waste are toxic so everyone is having to wear either a mask, be it a proper one or a scarf or something like that wrapped around their face and many of the rescue workers don't have proper protection and are getting burnt themselves.
Of course, confidence is medium on this, the Hungarian news agencies won't give the full story because apparently they're controlled by the government and the government itself is as corrupt as they come.
I'll be having their relatives and the relatives of all those affected by this disaster in my thoughts and prayers. It was, it would seem, a disaster waiting to happen, much like the Aberfan disaster of '66 and I suspect the verdict reached by the Tribunal there will be similar to that of this disaster:
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" ...the Aberfan Disaster is a terrifying tale of bungling ineptitude by many men charged with tasks for which they were totally unfitted, of failure to heed clear warnings, and of total lack of direction from above. Not villains but decent men, led astray by foolishness or by ignorance or by both in combination, are responsible for what happened at Aberfan"
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