Gas leak sickens over 90 people in SW China

Over 90 people who live nearby a steel plant were sickened Thursday after waste gas leaked from one of the plant's pipelines in southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.

All the 93 people who suffered carbon monoxide poisoning have been sent to hospital, among whom seven were severely sickened by the toxic gas, said a spokesman with the government information office in the city of Guigang, where the accident happened.

The leaking pipeline at Guigang Iron and Steel Company has already been shut off, said the spokesman.

93 people who suffered carbon monoxide poisoning have been sent to hospital.