BEIJING: Seven people were killed, three injured and 150,000 evacuated after large amounts of toxic chlorine gas spewed from a factory in south-west China's Chongqing municipality yesterday, state media said.
The highly irritating, greenish-yellow gas began leaking from the Tianyuan Chemical Industry Plant in the densely populated Jiangbei district of downtown Chongqing Thursday evening, residents and the Xinhua news agency said.
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