The World - News from Nov. 24, 1988
More than 100 people required hospital treatment after a chlorine gas leak from a bleach factory in the Argentine city of Mendoza, civil defense chief Alberto Granata said. Most of the victims were treated and released, he said, but 13 remained hospitalized with two people in intensive care units. According to the Noticias Argentinas news agency, the gas seeped from an open valve at the factory, forming a cloud that did not immediately disperse because of weather conditions. Police found the leak after residents near the factory, about 600 miles west of Buenos Aires, began suffering eye, lung and throat irritation.
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