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Riau struggling with a crisis threatening breathing mist villages

Villagers, Siti Hendrianti Beautiful Asri (R) with his son Michael (Central), and Alfikri Alhamda (L) stands in front of his house to pose his house threatened to enter the land burned in Rimbo length, in the province of Riau, Indonesia, on 16 September 2015. the government said last week that more than 25 million people in Sumatra and Kalimantan were affected by haze caused by illegal land clearing, often spread choking smoke into neighboring countries. Fog emergency has been declared in six provinces and school students have been told to stay at home that threatens the village against respiratory infections. Haze from forest fires in Indonesia is an annual hazard. The government has warned that the El Nino weather phenomenon, which is expected to last until October, will lead to an extended dry season and more forest fires in Indonesia. (Photo by Ivan Damanik/NurPhoto)

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