China Puts 6 on Trial in Gas Leak Deaths 2004-07-14
2003 China Gas Field Blast: Fire rages at the mouth of a natural gas well at Gaoqiao township, Kaixian County, in China's southwestern municipality of Chongqing, December 26, 2003. A gas well blow-out in southwest China turned a 25 square km (10 sq miles) area into a death zone, killing nearly 200 people as they slept or scrambled to escape a cloud of toxic fumes, officials and state media said on Friday.
BEIJING - Six gas company employees went on trial Wednesday over a disaster that killed 243 people in December when a burst gas well spewed toxic fumes over mountain villages in China's southwest.... ...
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