BEIJING: Fumes from a leak of liquid chlorine at a chemical plant in China's north-west left 164 people hospitalised, mostly children and elderly people who lived nearby, a news report and plant employees said yesterday. No deaths were reported.
The leak occurred on Sunday evening at the Xing'erte Chemical Products Co in Yinchuan, a city in the Ningxia region, the Xinhua news agency said.
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