Lahore again tops world's most polluted cities list
Pakistan
Lahore had an air quality ranking of 322, well over the hazardous level of 300, according to IQAir.
LAHORE (Dunya News) - Lahore has once again topped the daily ranking of the most polluted cities in the world followed by India’s New Delhi and Chinese city of Wuhan, Dunya News reported on Monday.
Lahore had an air quality ranking of 322, well over the hazardous level of 300, according to IQAir, the technology company that operates the AirVisual monitoring platform.
Residents choking in acrid smog pleaded with officials to take action. Air pollution has worsened in Pakistan in recent years, as a mixture of low-grade diesel fumes, smoke from seasonal crop burn off, and colder winter temperatures coalesce into stagnant clouds of smog.
Lahore, a bustling megacity of more than 11 million people in Punjab province near the border with India, consistently ranks among the worst cities in the world for air pollution.
