ST. PETERSBURG, September 17 (RIA Novosti) - One person died after a pipe ruptured causing ammonia gas to leak into a dairy plant in Russia's second largest city of St. Petersburg, a source in the city's emergency service said on Wednesday.
A total of 15 people were injured, 12 of them were rushed to hospital. The cause of the industrial accident is being established.
The source added the leak was under control and not a threat to local people living around the plant.
In June two people died from ammonia poisoning after an explosion at a meat plant in south Russia's Saratov Region.
