Toxic gas leak in Jordan kills at least 12 people, injures hundreds
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By Jassar Al Tahat, Hadeel Ghaboun, Celine Alkhaldi, Caroline Faraj and Mostafa Salem, CNN A toxic gas that leaked out of a container in Jordan’s port of Aqaba, killing at least 12 people and injuring 260 others, was chlorine, Jordan’s emergency relief coordinating agency said late Monday.
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Public security officials said a gas tanker sprung a leak while being transported, and video showed a tanker being dropped as it was moved and emitting a large cloud of yellow smoke.
A crane loading chlorine tanks onto a ship in Jordan's port of Aqaba on Monday dropped one of them, causing an explosion of toxic yellow smoke that killed at least 13 people and sickened some 250, authorities said.
AMMAN, Jordan — A poisonous gas leak in Jordan’s southern port city of Aqaba on Monday killed at least 10 people and injured around 250, authorities said. Video carried by state-run media outlets showed a crane hoisting a large tanker from a truck and then dropping it on the deck
Thirteen people were killed, including at least four Asian migrants, when toxic chlorine gas escaped on the dockside in the Jordanian Red Sea port of Aqaba, officials said.
Thirteen people were killed, including at least four Asian migrants, when toxic chlorine gas escaped on the dockside in the Jordanian Red Sea port of Aqaba, officials said.More than 250 people were injured in the accident Monday, of whom 123 remained in hospital on Tuesday, according to the latest t…
By Jassar Al Tahat, Hadeel Ghaboun, Celine Alkhaldi, Caroline Faraj and Mostafa Salem, CNN A toxic gas that leaked out of a container in Jordan’s port of Aqaba, killing at least 12 people and injuring 260 others, was chlorine, Jordan’s emergency relief coordinating agency said late Monday.
Jordan's public prosecutor on Tuesday launched an investigation into a chlorine gas leak that killed 13 people and injured more than 300 in the coastal city of Aqaba.At least four Asian migrants where among those killed on Monday when a tank of the toxic gas fell on the dockside in the Red Sea port,…
At least 12 people died and 251 were injured in a chlorine gas leak from a storage tank at Jordan's Aqaba port. The leak came after a tank filled with chlorine gas being exported to Djibouti fell while being transported
