Angry citizens of a Russian city led a spontaneous protest outside a hospital after multiple schoolchildren allegedly fell ill because of a landfill site.<br /><br />The video shows hundreds of people from the city of Volokolamsk, around 120km west of Moscow, milling around the hospital in the city where the ill children are staying.<br /><br />Four pupils from one school in the city were taken ill supposedly from toxic fumes from the nearby Yadrovo landfill, reportedly bringing the total number to 57.<br /><br />The author of the video, lawyer Denis Kunaev, said residents had been complaining about the issue for more than a year.<br /><br />It is believed a gas, hydrogen sulphide, is causing the illness among residents of the town of roughly 23,000.<br /><br />The governor of the Moscow capital region, Andrei Vorobiev, said the schoolchildren will be moved away from Volokolamsk.<br /><br />The Yadrovo landfill, opened in 2008, is a major dumping ground for rubbish from Russia’s capital.<br /><br />But residents say gasses from the site have been causing nausea, vomiting and fainting.
