NSW: More than 100 employees re-enter building after gas leak

AAP General News (Australia)
08-07-2007
NSW: More than 100 employees re-enter building after gas leak

More than 100 people have returned to work in Sydney .. after a gas leak triggered
an evacuation at an inner-city suburb.

Workers in a nearby pit ruptured a gas pipe about 10 o'clock (AEST) this morning ..

forcing the evacuation of 118 people from an office building at Alexandria.

Specialist fire crews rushed to the building on Euston Road .. near the intersection
of Sydney Park Road.

The workers had closed the gas line by 11.30 am .. and no-one's been harmed during the incident.

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