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Air pollution ‘killing 100 children a day in Asia’

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Unicef: Pollution is linked to the deaths of more than 100 children every day in east Asia and the Pacific .

Nearly one in four deaths of children under five are associated with pollutants equal to roughly 100 fatalities a day, and 38,000 over the course of a year .

The UN agency estimates 325 million children live in countries where annual levels of particulate matter are at least five times higher than WHO guidelines.

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