‘Like smoking a cigarette’: Indonesia chokes on haze as blazes intensify amid super ‘El Niño’

According to The Guardian, raging fires in Indonesia's Kalimantan have scorched tens of thousands of acres, sending a thick plume of smoke across the region. The haze has reached Malaysia and prompted Singapore to issue an alert, while residents like Suwadi say visibility is reduced to just five metres, describing each breath as feeling “like smoking a cigarette.”

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