Hundreds flee chlorine cloud in north Moravia

About 200 people were evacuated after a cloud of chlorine escaped from a water-treatment plant in the community in Vítkov, north Moravia, on Tuesday. The evacuees included students from a nearby boarding school and local inhabitants who were taken away by buses. It was the second incident of air contamination in the same place in less than 24 hours. In the first accident, two men had to receive medical treatment after they inhaled chlorine.