Unhealthy air quality forces thousands of schools to close as toxic haze from out-of-control blazes in Indonesia's Sumatra and Borneo islands smothers the region
Malaysian capital's skyline with landmark Kuala Lumpur Tower is blanketed by haze. September 18, 2019.
Indonesia said hundreds of schools in hard-hit Riau province on Sumatra would also be shut on Thursday, with 800 closed in one district alone, while about 1,300 were shut in its Central Kalimantan province on Borneo. The fires belch smog across Southeast Asia annually, but this year's are the worst since 2015 and have added to concerns about wildfire outbreaks worldwide exacerbating global warming.Thursday's school shutdown marked the first mass closure in Kuala Lumpur as air quality deteriorated to "unhealthy" or "very unhealthy" levels on an official index in many parts of peninsular Malaysia, to the east of Sumatra, with the capital's skyline shrouded by dense smog.
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