DISEASE
A 15-year-old girl died from the effects of air pollution in Yokkaichi, Japan, October 19.
Kimie Minami was the twelfth person to die among patients officially diagnosed as suffering from polluted city air.
Japan's largest petrochemical industrial complex is located in Yokkaichi.
The girl was diagnosed as suffering from asthma in 1957 and was officially declared a victim of polluted air by a city medical council in 1965.