CHONGQING: Villagers were preparing for sleep when the gas well burst with a bang. Then came choking fumes. Families dashed out of their homes in terror, struggling to breathe in the searing cloud.
Survivors and state media gave harrowing accounts on Friday of the disaster that killed at least 198 people in China's southwest, forced 41,000 to flee and left a 25-square-kilometre death zone strewn with bodies lying in fields, by the sides of roads and in homes.
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