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9 killed, 150,000 evacuated after gas leak
At least nine people were killed on Friday by blasts in the wake of a chlorine gas leak in Jiangbei District of southwestern Chongqing Municipality, firefighters said.
Xinhua
reporters at the scene heard loud explosions at about 5: 57 pm from the Tianyuan
Chemical Plant, where the chlorine gas first started leaking around 7 pm on
Thursday. More than 150,000 residents have been moved out of areas within three kilometers surrounding the plant. Inhalation of 2.5 milligrams of chlorine gas is enough to cause death and symptoms of inhalation include bronchial spasms, dropsy and respiratory difficulty.
Residents living near the scene had to be evacuated
again after they were temporarily allowed to return home, said Deputy Mayor Zhou
Mubing, who is directing rescue work at the scene.
All residents living within a kilometre of the spot and
some residents in an urban area facing the plant across Jialing River
were evacuated, the vice mayor said. |
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