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300 Chinese villagers still hospitalized

Posted By Walter Schneider On April 19, 2007 @ 9:36 am In Pollution: Health Issues, Emission Incidents & Issues, Sulphur-Dioxide | No Comments

300 Chinese villagers still hospitalized after sulfur dioxide gas cloud from fertilizer plant

ASSOCIATED PRESS

BEIJING – About 300 villagers remained in the hospital after a huge discharge of sulfur dioxide gas from a chemical plant in southwestern China, state media said Thursday.

Fourteen were seriously ill from the leak, which was caused Monday by an equipment malfunction at the fertilizer plant in Guizhou province’s Xifeng county, the official Xinhua News Agency said….([1] Full Story — off-site, [2] related story)

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[1] Full Story: http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20070419-1355-china-chemicalleak.html
[2] related story: http://folc.ca/news_folc.htm#china_so2

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