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One person is killed and 84 others are injured by a chlorine gas leakage at a sewage plant in Qena, Egypt.
2023-07-27

Fifty-six people, mostly children, are hospitalized after they suffocated due to inhalation of chlorine gas that leaked from a swimming pool in Alexandria, Egypt.
2023-07-20

International seafood company Grieg Seafood announces that it has accidentally dumped 4,000 gallons of chlorine in a Norwegian fjord, killing approx. 96,000 fish. The company apologizes and says it will handle the cleanup.
2021-08-10

A fire is reported at a power plant in the city of Ahvaz, in south-western Iran, while a chlorine gas leak injures 70 workers at a petrochemicals plant near Bandar-e Emam Khomeyni. The incidents come after a string of other unexplained blazes and explosions at Iranian facilities.
2020-07-4

NASA research, published in "Geophysical Research Letters", implies that the ozone layer is starting to recover due to man's actions. The decline in ozone-depleting chemicals, specifically chlorine from chlorofluorocarbon (an effect from the 1980's CFC ban, say the scientists), has resulted in 20 percent less depletion since 2005.
2018-01-5

Six people are killed in a suspected chlorine gas attack in Aleppo, Syria.
2016-11-20

Armed opposition militants fired shells containing chlorine and white phosphorus at the 1070 Apartments project in Aleppo.
2016-11-11

Iraqi police claim ISIL militants fired chemical weapons, suspected to be mustard gas or chlorine, in the May 8 attacks on Bashir near Kirkuk, Iraq.
2016-05-18

The United Nations Security Council unanimously adopts a resolution aimed at identifying those responsible for deploying chlorine and other chemical weapons in attacks in Syria.
2015-08-7

More than 60 people are hospitalised after a suspected chlorine gas leak in Mumbai.
2010-07-14