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Stockholm: About 11,000 tonnes of sulphuric acid leaked from a chemical plant in southern Sweden on Friday, forming a poisonous gas cloud over the city of Helsingborg that forced citizens to stay indoors for four hours, officials said. Officials said at least 13 people were injured, but none seriously. No fatalities were reported. The acid leaked out shortly after 4 a.m. local time from the Kemira Kemi factory in central Helsingborg, a port city on Sweden's south-western coast 600 km south of the capital, Stockholm. Helsingborg is separated from Denmark by a narrow strait and lies just 6 km east of the Danish capital, Copenhagen. Large sections of the city were blocked off to traffic this morning, and ferry traffic to Denmark was cancelled. By 11 a.m. (local time), most streets were reopened, except for the blocks surrounding the chemical plant. Residents had initially been warned to stay indoors and not go outside, but by the morning, the cloud was beginning to evaporate and the danger lessening. — AP
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