Five killed by liquid ammonia leak in east China

Five Chinese employees were killed by liquid ammonia which leaked from a freight house unit in a foreign refrigeration transport vessel during loading in east China's Shandong Province on Friday night, local official said.

The cause of the accident is under investigation.

(Top image: file photo of firemen in protective suits gather near the site of an ammonia leak at a cold storage unit in Shanghai in September 2, 2013. /AFP Photo)