WITTENOOM VICTIMS REMEMBERED There were sombre scenes at a church service in Perth today, as the 4000 people who died from mesothelioma caused by the asbestos mine in Wittenoom were remembered. And there were calls for a memorial to be built to mark, what the government calls, one of the saddest chapters in WA's history. | 7NEWS Regional WA

Miles de habitantes de Wittenoom, un pueblo minero al oeste de Australia surgido a finales de 1940, murieron a causa de su exposición al asbesto azul. La mina se cerró en 1966, pero la ciudad sigue contaminada. El gobierno australianos se refirió a Wittenoom como "la mayor tragedia de salud de la historia del país, comparable a las catástrofes de Chernobyl y Bhopal". Ahora el gobierno inició una campaña para evitar que los turistas visiten este pueblo abandonado del noroeste de Australia. | BBC

Wittenoom in Western Australia is a ghost town at the centre of what's considered the biggest contaminated site in the southern hemisphere. Traditional owners are calling for the clean up of an estimated three million tonnes of deadly blue asbestos tailings. | 7.30