8,000 evacuated after a chemical warehouse blast (newsphoto/China Foto Press) Updated: 2006-05-11 15:02

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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