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'Like breathing poison': Delhi children hardest hit by smog

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The Taj Mahal is seen amid heavy smog as the sun rises in Agra, India, on Nov. 9, 2023. [AFP]

Crying in a hospital bed with a nebulizer mask on his tiny face, 1-month-old Ayansh Tiwari has a thick, hacking cough. His doctors blame the acrid air that blights New Delhi every year.

The spartan emergency room of the government-run Chacha Nehru Bal Chikitsalaya hospital in the Indian capital is crowded with children struggling to breathe, many with asthma and pneumonia, which spike as air pollution peaks each winter in the megacity of 30 million people.

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