Eight killed, 100 poisoned in Venezuela highway accident
11:12, 18 September 2009
CARACAS. September 18. KAZINFORM At least eight people died and 100 were poisoned when a passenger bus crashed against a truck transporting chlorine gas in the east of Venezuela, police said on Thursday; Kazinform refers to Xinhua.
The accident occurred on Monday night, and the truck turned over and spilled the chlorine it had between Clarines and El Hatillo localities, in Anzoategui state.
The gas escaped and spread in the zone, where some 100 people were poisoned, police said.
Anzoategui governor Tarek William Saab said that some 100 people were poisoned for inhaling the chlorine and they were assisted at different clinics of the region; Kazinform cites Xinhua.
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