BEIJING, Oct. 27 (Xinhuanet) -- A gas leakage through cracks on the drain pipe of a water-seal gas holder in a steel plant in Beijing killed nine bystanders Wednesday afternoon, according to an official source.

    The State General Administration of Work Safety on Thursday made the accident report.

    Secretary of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China Liu Qi and Mayor Wang Qishan have asked the Capital Iron and Steel Corp. to take repairing and precaution measures to prevent similar accidents from happening.

    The nine victims, including three cleaners with the steel plant and six passers-by, were poisoned to death by the carbon monoxide. Enditem