Heavy Smog Forces Students Home as Pollution Hits Beijing
- Air pollution hanging over city is heaviest this year
- PM2.5 readings near Tiananmen Square above hazard levels
A woman and child wearing face masks walk down a road in Beijing on Monday.
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Beijing’s worst pollution of the year forced some parents to keep their children home from school as municipal officials limited factory output in efforts to dispel a shroud of smog that covered the Chinese capital for the third day in a row.