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About 20 people were taken to hospital after suspected gas leak at a business in Elandsfontein east of Johannesburg on Thursday.
Private ambulance services EMER-G-MED and Netcare911 were dispatched to the business just after 10am and found at least 20 workers with varying degrees of illness and injury.
“It’s believed that there was a gas leak in the building‚ which was inhaled by the workers‚” EMER-G-MED said in a statement.
“Paramedics worked on the scene to triage and stabilise the patients‚ before they were rapidly transported to various nearby hospitals for further management — some of them under advanced life support care.”
Local authorities were investigating the source of the gas leak.