Smoke from Brazil Amazon rainforest fires suffocates Manaus
MANAUS (Brazil), Oct 14 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Manaus, the largest city in Brazil’s Amazonas state, has for days been engulfed by a toxic cloud of smoke from forest fires lit by what the government labeled “criminals”.
The city of nearly two million people has been forced to cancel some public events including a marathon.
The fires in the Amazon have produced a blanket of grey smoke over the capital of the northern state of Amazonas since Wednesday.
Air quality in the city is among the worst in the world, according to the World Air Quality Index.