UK - Cornwall poisoning

Village of the damned: Mysterious suicides. Agonising illness. And now, 25 years after UK's worst case of mass poisoning, the first evidence that dirty water has KILLED people

• Camelford in Cornwall was poisoned with aluminium sulphate in 1988
• A van accidentally dumped 20 tons into the household water supply
• Villagers were immediately poisoned, but water was soon deemed safe
• Since then, several deaths and illnesses have been linked to aluminium
• Dead villagers have been found to have had high levels in their brain
• They all suffered early onset dementia and died relatively early

By SIMON TRUMP