night in southwest China’s Guizhou Province, rescuers said Wednesday.

The leak started at about 12:40 am Wednesday from a broken gasoline pipe after a construction tower collapsed late on Tuesday

at a high-speed railway construction site in Pingba County of Anshun City, said rescuers.

The pipe belongs to a branch of Sinopec, the country’s largest oil refiner.

Local government authorities have cordoned off the leak site and laid pipelines to pump the oil leakage.

Environmental personnel have started environmental monitoring at the site, where petrol fumes were pungent.

The current primary task is to focus on pumping the leakage and screening the leak risks to avoid further accidents, said Li

Shangkuan, director with the Guizhou Provincial Administrator of Work Safety.

(ISCO, Edited by Topco)