The South China Morning Post, reports that around 200 Chinese villagers, angry over pollution of their water supply, attacked three factories and a sewage treatment plant.The villagers in the eastern province of Fujian, some armed with iron bars, smashed windows and appliances on Saturday at the sewage plant, two leather factories and a South Korean-invested plastics factory.
Villagers had complained that discharge from the sewage treatment plant, about half a mile from their homes, had polluted the water supply, damaged crops and created a lingering stench.
