Kunming rail network hit by gasoline leak
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About 8,000 people were stranded at Kunming Railway station at about 5pm yesterday after a gasoline leak near the Kunming-Shanghai railway line, the Kunming Railway Bureau said.
About 2,000 tons of gasoline have leaked from a broken pipe after an accident at a construction site late on Tuesday in southwest China’s Guizhou Province, rescuers said yesterday.
The leak started at about 12:40am yesterday after a construction tower collapsed on Tuesday at a high-speed railway construction site in Pingba County of Anshun City, rescuers said.
Trains from Kunming to Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing, Jinan, Chongqing and Guilin on the Kunming-Shanghai line were either delayed or canceled due to the leak.
The pipeline belongs to a branch of Sinopec, the country’s largest oil refiner.
Local government authorities had cordoned off the leak site and laid pipelines to pump the oil leakage.
Environmental personnel are monitoring the site, where petrol fumes were pungent.
“The primary task was to focus on pumping the leakage and screening the leak risks to avoid further accidents,” said Li Shangkuan, director of the Guizhou Provincial Administration of Work Safety.
Three people have received medical treatment, and more than 110 are working to repair the broken pipe and clear the site, which is about 30 meters from the Shanghai-Kunming railway and is near residential houses.
The local government took emergency measures to stop the leak and evacuate residents from within the two-kilometer radius. A joint investigation team has been formed to look into the accident.
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