{"id":30655,"date":"2022-06-28T03:20:20","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T00:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/ten-dead-251-injured-in-chlorine-gas-leak-at-jordans-aqaba-port\/30655\/"},"modified":"2022-06-28T03:20:20","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T00:20:20","slug":"ten-dead-251-injured-in-chlorine-gas-leak-at-jordans-aqaba-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/ten-dead-251-injured-in-chlorine-gas-leak-at-jordans-aqaba-port\/30655\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Dead, 251 Injured in Chlorine Gas Leak at Jordan&#8217;s Aqaba Port"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>Ten people died and 251 were injured in a chlorine gas leak from a storage tank at Jordan&#8217;s Aqaba port, officials and state media reported on Monday, as authorities called on residents to shut windows and stay indoors.<\/p>\n<p>The leak came after a tank filled with 25 tonnes of chlorine gas being exported to Djibouti fell while being transported, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>A video posted on state television&#8217;s Twitter page showed a storage tank falling from a winch and slamming into the deck of a ship, followed by yellow-colored gas rising into the air as people ran away.<\/p>\n<p>City health authorities called on residents to close their windows and stay in their homes, according to state TV.<\/p>\n<p>Specialized teams are still dealing with the leak, the Civil Defense service said on its Facebook page. Evacuation planes were being sent into Aqaba, state television said.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Bisher al-Khasawneh arrived at Aqaba and headed to a hospital where some of the injured were being treated, state TV reported.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Khasawneh also formed an investigation team into the incident chaired by the interior minister, state TV cited the information minister as saying.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"680\" width=\"570\" src=\"https:\/\/twitframe.com\/show?url=https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlArabiya_Eng\/status\/1541473483418439680\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>(Reuters &#8211; Reporting by Moataz Mohamed, Omar Fahmy, Nayera Abdallah and Suleiman al-Khalidi; Editing by Peter Graff, Deepa Babington and Mark Porter)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>maritime professional<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten people died and 251 were injured in a chlorine gas leak from a storage tank at Jordan&#8217;s Aqaba port, officials and state media reported on Monday, as authorities called on residents to shut windows and stay indoors. The leak came after a tank filled with 25 tonnes of chlorine gas being exported to Djibouti &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/30656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}