Six sentenced for gas well blowout in Chongqing

The six convicted hear the ruling on a major gas well blowout in the No.2 Intermediate People's Court of Chongqing Municipality in southwest China, Sept. 4, 2004. Six people on Saturday were sentenced to jail terms ranging from three to six years on charges of key responsibility accident crime in a major gas well blowout which took place in Chongqing¡¯s Kaixian County on December 23, 2003, killing 243 people and injuring more than 4,000 others.

The trial scene in the No.2 Intermediate People's Court of Chongqing Municipality in southwest China.

Citizens go to the No.2 Intermediate People's Court of Chongqing Municipality to be present at the trial of six people relating to a gas well blowout accident in Chongqing, southwest China, Sept. 4, 2004.