Across China: Inner Mongolia

25 remain in hospital

Twenty-five of the 246 people who fell ill after an ammonia gas leak in North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region were still hospitalized yesterday, a work safety official said.

Among the others who were sickened, 70 remained under hospital observation and 151 had been discharged from hospital as of 11 am yesterday, said Zhao Xiangyang, chief work safety official in Hongshan district, Chifeng.