BEIJING: Firemen worked overnight cleaning up a toxic chlorine gas leak and appeared to have the situation under control after the disaster forced the evacuation of 150,000 people in southwest China, officials said yesterday.
Powerful explosions on Friday evening at the Tianyuan Chemical Industry Plant in downtown Chongqing municipality released further clouds of toxic chlorine gas into the air.
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