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Sichuan

15,000 stranded by fog at airport

About 15,000 passengers were stranded at an airport in Chengdu as a heavy fog shrouded the city on Monday. The fog started at around 1 am, reducing visibility to 50 meters on the runways and landing fields at Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport. The airport issued an alert for flight delays at 6:45 am. Only 13 flights took off from 6 am to 9 am, less than 10 percent of the ordinary number. Flights started to fully resume at 11:22 am. As of noon, a total of 44 flights had been canceled and 185 outbound flights delayed. The airport expects that the first group of stranded passengers will be able to leave at around 4 pm and it will finish transporting all stranded passengers after midnight.