At least 10 dead after a gas leak in a Jordanian port |The mail

2022-06-28 07:18:13 By : Ms. Daisy Zhang

This is your last news to see this monthTake advantage of the anniversary offer, 2 months for only €1 each monthAlready a subscriber?Log inYou have news to see this monthYou have 1 news left to see this monthTake advantage of the anniversary offer, 2 months for only €1 each monthAlready a subscriber?Log inThat is the fateful moment in which a container with 25 tons of gaseous chlorine is released and hits the deck of the freighter. An immense cloud of toxic yellow gas floods everything in the port of Aqaba, in southern Jordan. see the port staff run out of the place before being engulfed by the gas. At least a dozen people have died and 251 have suffered suffocation and have been transferred to hospitals in the area. The prime minister has moved to one of them and assured that it will be the Minister of the Interior who will direct the investigations of the incident, which the king and the crown prince follow promptly, he has indicated. A team of specialists in the treatment of hazardous materials works to contain the leak and residents are asked close the windows and stay at home, stay away from the port.