Five thousand people have been evacuated after a chlorine leak
in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, officials with the
local government said on Wednesday.
The leak occurred around 9:00 AM on Wednesday at a water plant
in Yilan County, in east Harbin City, capital of Heilongjiang, said
Zhao Changman, deputy chief of the county government.
Zhao said 2,000 students and teachers in a neighboring school
and about 3,000 residents in the neighborhood have been
evacuated.
Zhao said so far he did not know whether any people have been
hospitalized.
Fire-fighters have arrived at the scene to try to cap the
leak.
(Xinhua News Agency April 25, 2007)