5,000 evacuated after chlorine leak
(Xinhua) Updated: 2007-04-25 16:43
Five thousand people have been evacuated after a
chlorine leak in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, officials with the
local government said on Wednesday.
The leak occurred around 9:00 a.m. on
Wednesday at a water plant in Yilan county, in east Harbin city, capital of
Heilongjiang, said Zhao Changman, deputy chief of the county government.
Zhao said 2,000 students and teachers in a neighboring school and about
3,000 residents in the neighbourhood have been evacuated.
Zhao said so far
he did not know whether any people have been hospitalized. Fire-fighters
have arrived at the scene to try to cap the leak.
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