'Black snow' blankets Kazakhstan city believed to be polluted

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'Black snow' blankets Kazakhstan city believed to be polluted

Jan. 11 (UPI) -- A winter storm with high winds has disrupted transportation in Kazakhstan and led to "black snow" falling on the industrial city of Temirtau.

The snow mixed with mysterious, dark dust that has accumulated in the city, which is vital to Kazakhstan's iron industry and houses the country's biggest steel production plant -- Karaganda Metallurgical Combine -- owned by ArcelorMittal Temirtau, a subsidiary of the global industrial giant ArcelorMittal.

"We can't live like this. We're suffocating here," one user wrote on social media.

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