State Councilor promises necessary relief to gas blowout victims

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State Councilor promises necessary relief to gas blowout victims

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Chinese State Councilor Hua Jianmin promised here Friday to deliver enough relief materials topeople who were affected by Tuesday's gas blowout in Kaixian County, in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality.

"You will have enough food, water, clothing and shelters," saidHua, when he visited hundreds of people evacuated from the areas near the Chuandongbei natural gas field, where the gas blowout erupted suddenly on Tuesday night, killing at least 191 people.

Ordered by President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao to fly to Chongqing late Thursday night, Hua is heading a work team consisting of State Council staff members to guide the rescue work in the county.

Over 80 rescue teams consisting of 2,000 soldiers, armed policeand fire fighters are searching the areas near the gas field, and the search is expected to finish at 7 a.m. Saturday, according to the rescue headquarters.

More than 42,000 people living in the areas with a radius of five km of the gas field, located in a mountainous area, have beenevacuated to safe places following the gas blowout, which also killed an unknown number of domestic animals.

To date, over 10,000 quilts and some 300 tons of relief overcoats, medicine and food have arrived in Kaixian, and the authorities are now delivering them to those in need, a county government spokesman said.

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