Residents of a British village are blaming a mobile phone mast for cancer deaths and other health problems, a media report said Friday.
Since the phone mast was erected in 2007 in Buckler, Cornwall, eight people have died, Daily Express reported.
'We are living in a cancer cluster.
'More than 50 percent of the residents said they have had serious health problems since the mast was put up. Then people started dying from cancer. Two more have just been diagnosed and one of those is terminally ill.
'I have severe vertigo, which my doctor can't explain. I don't sleep for more than three hours every night and my wife is the same. If you look down the street at 3 a.m. everyone's lights are on because we can't sleep,' Peter Lewis who set up Buckler -Village Mast Sanity Group was quoted as saying.
June Parsons, whose 73-year-old husband died due to prostate cancer a year ago, believes the mast is to blame.
'He did have a few heart problems, but apart from those he was marvellous,' said Parsons who has also suffered unexplained blood clots on her lungs.
Seventyfive-year-old Terry Southcombe has been diagnosed with bladder cancer.
'It was fine until that mast went up. For the sake of younger generations something needs to be done.'
Mobile phone firm O2 has said it doesn't recognise any health risks from such masts.
'Scientists have failed to come up with anything to suggest that mobile phones or masts present a risk to humans,' a spokesperson was quoted as saying.
