Kunming: At least 770 people were evacuated after a gas well leakage in China's Yunnan province though no casualties were reported, officials said Monday.
The leak occurred at 7.25 pm on Sunday at a farm in Luliang county, about 150 km east of provincial capital Kunming, said a publicity department spokesperson.
A drilling company based in the neighbouring Sichuan province was digging for a gas well on the Huaqiao farm, about five km from Luliang's county seat, when natural gas blew out 15 meters high, the spokesman said.
Emergency measures were taken and residents living within one km of the gas well were immediately evacuated.
Company sources estimated 90 per cent of the blowout was methane and the rest included dust, water and nitrogen.
No fire broke out following the leakage.
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