Chemical blast evacuates 8,000 in Guangzhou (China Foto Press) Updated: 2006-05-11 11:13

Smoke billows out after a chemical storehouse blast
near a highway toll station in Guangzhou, south China's Guangdong Province
yesterday evening. As many as 8000 local residents were evacuated,
including 4000 students. About 50 of the evacuees got poisoned by
the gas released from the burning chemicals and were rushed to a local
hospital. Most of them have been discharged, and no one death was
reported. [China Foto Press]
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