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Updated 17 September 2026

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Fires lit to clear land for palm oil blanket Southeast Asia in haze

More than 50,000 people have been admitted to hospital in Indonesia with respiratory infections as smoke from the fires drifts into Malaysia and the Philippines.

BBC Bangla3 September 20262 min read