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ABC’s China Correspondent reports from the Chengdu
The World Today - Tuesday, 13 May , 2008 12:14:00
Reporter: Stephen McDonell
http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2008/s2243363.htm
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ELEANOR HALL: There are also two chemical plants apparently were damaged. What can you tell us about that? What sort of chemicals were in them?
STEPHEN MCDONELL: Yes, In Shifang there were two collapsed chemical plants. Reports that 80 tonnes of liquid ammonium leaked out. Now that, apart from the fact that the workers in that factory would have been endangered by the collapse, again that is going to complicate things in that you’ve got toxic chemicals leaking all around the place with rescue workers trying to get in there and rescue people.
Mind you there has also been another report of a separate factory on Xinhua saying that thousands of people might have been killed in one incident when a factory collapsed so I think it is going to be pretty bad. That the death toll seems to be just getting higher and higher.