XINING, April 29 (Xinhua) -- Twenty-three workers are ill after a chlorine gas leak at a chemical plant in Qinghai Province on Tuesday, an official with the factory said Wednesday.
The gas leaked for five minutes at about 8 p.m. from a crack in a chlorine pipeline in Tiantai Sodium Manufacturing Co. Ltd. in Huangzhong County, said Jing Yichen, Communist Party of China chief at the company.
The gas spread to a neighboring plant where more than 100 employees were working or having dinner.
Nineteen workers who showed symptoms of headaches, nausea, coughing, and eye irritation were taken to hospital Tuesday. Four more workers were hospitalized Wednesday morning.
All are migrant workers from Sichuan Province in southwest China.
Yue Yongping, one of those affected, said he smelt a strong odor at the time and felt pain in his eyes and throat. He also had difficulty breathing.
Zhang Fu, a doctor with the No.1 People's Hospital of the county that treated the poisoned workers, said they were stable and recovering.
Jing said his workers immediately closed the leaking pipeline for repair and the company would pay the medical costs for all the sick workers.
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