Images: Asia's most polluted playgrounds

[caption id=“attachment_171023” align=“alignleft” width=“940” caption=“A boy jumps into a polluted river after school at Pluit dam in Jakarta, Indonesia. Reuters”] [/caption] [caption id=“attachment_171026” align=“alignleft” width=“940” caption=“A boy swims in the polluted waters of the river Sabarmati to dive for offerings thrown in by worshippers in the city of Ahmedabad. Reuters”] [/caption] [caption id=“attachment_171053” align=“alignleft” width=“940” caption=“A child makes his way through a pile of garbage in a canal in Mumbai. Reuters”] [/caption] [caption id=“attachment_171030” align=“alignleft” width=“940” caption=“Boys run at a garbage dump on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. Reuters”] [/caption] [caption id=“attachment_171034” align=“alignleft” width=“940” caption=“Children play on foam from a polluted river at the Marunda flood canal in Jakarta, Indonesia. Reuters”] [/caption] [caption id=“attachment_171042” align=“alignleft” width=“940” caption=“A boy rides on an improvised Banca made of styrofoam as he gets near crashing waves during high tide on a bay of Manila, Phillipines. Reuters”] [/caption]

Images: Asia's most polluted playgrounds

For most Mumbaikars, the sight of children played in a dump doesn’t come as a shock. But polluted playgrounds are reality all over in Asia.

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