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School kids hurt in chlorine leak incident
(newsphoto)
Updated: 2004-05-11 23:21
School children are treated in a hospital in Yanguoxia, Northwest China's
Gansu Province, after a accidental chlorine gas leak at a chemical planton on
Monday. Eighteen students involved were hospitalized. Three students were
slightly poisoned and remained in hospital for medical observation. The others
have returned home. The accident happened when two workers of the chemical plant
opened a gas valve in violation of rules during an annual facility check-up. The
chemical plant's chlorine bottling centre was ordered to stop operating. An
investigation is under way. [newsphoto]
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