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 ».
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 gray 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.
« This smoke is hurting us. People don’t know what they are doing by burning the forest, and many animals are dying, » said Maria Luiza Reis, a 72-year-old Manaus resident.
