(MENAFN) Local authorities declared that 7 people have died in a gas toxic case at a paper mill in south China's Guangdong Province Friday night.
The city's publicity department confirmed that firefighters were informed of the incident at Shuangzhou Paper Co., Ltd. in Zhongtang township in the city of Dongguan.
Nine employees were then locked inside a sewage adjusting tank of the paper factory.
Firefighters dragged them out and took them to hospital, however, seven have succumbed to their injuries after the medical care failed and the other two are in stable state.
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