Workers at the Red Sea port in Jordan, Aqaba, protest safety issues after 13 people were killed in a chlorine gas leak in a major berth. We started to stop working on Sunday. The union member said.
"We are working to suspend until our requirement to provide a suitable industrial safety environment is met," said hundreds of workers not appearing to work in the main. Ahmad Amyra, a major union member who said that, said the port facility.
The port representative confirmed that work had been suspended, but did not comment further on the incident.
According to industry experts, the incident could turn into a catastrophe if dozens of workers had completed the shift without leaving the scene shortly before the leak. The wind also blew toxic gas from densely populated areas of port cities into suburban deserts.
Government officials told Reuters on Sunday that the incident was a gross negligence in the management of the country's only commercial port, which industry sources had long warned of inadequate security measures. He said he was exposed.
Leak is the second largest scandal that has hit the government of Prime Minister Bischer al-Kasaune in recent years after at least seven patients died in March when oxygen ran out of public hospitals.
King Abdullah said he was waiting for the results of an investigation ordered by the government and conducted by the prosecutor to find out what had happened.
"We need to focus on the investigation and see which officials did not upgrade the standard operating procedures, either by laziness or negligence," the monarch said on Thursday. I told the officials.
The port of Aqaba at the northern end of the Red Sea has long been the main transit route for Iraqi cargo, but it has also become the gateway to some goods destined for the territory of Syria and Palestine. ..
