Toxic beach kills horse (Straits Times)

SAINT-MICHEL-EN-GREVE (France) – IT SHOULD have been a perfect day for Vincent Petit, finishing up an afternoon gallop on a wide expanse of beach along a pastel-colored bay. Instead, he and his mount were sucked into a hole of noxious black sludge. The horse died within seconds, the rider lost consciousness and a dirty secret on the Brittany coast reverberated across France – decaying green …
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With horse’s death, France vows to clean beach (The News Journal)

The horse died within seconds, the rider lost consciousness and a dirty secret on the Brittany coast reverberated across France — decaying green algae were fouling some of its best beaches.
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Horse dies, France faces reality of toxic beaches (Newsday)

SAINT-MICHEL-EN-GREVE, France (AP) — It should have been a perfect day for Vincent Petit, finishing up an afternoon gallop on a wide expanse of beach along a pastel-colored bay. Instead, he and his mount were sucked into a hole of noxious black sludge. The horse died within seconds, the rider lost consciousness and a dirty secret on the Brittany coast reverberated across France — decaying green …
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