KUALA LUMPUR:  , A gas leak on , Thursday ( Jul 4 ) at an engineering section of Kuala Lumpur’s international airport saw 39 people fall ill,  , a Malaysian , emergency services official said.
” A overall of , 39 , patients suffered from drowsiness and nausea”, local save official Muhammad Nur Khairi Samsumin said in a statement.
He added that 24 patients were discharged, 14 people were at the Air Disaster System receiving attention and one was hospitalised.
All of those afflicted work for three companies operating at the , service.
The affair did not destroy heat journey at the region’s top , airport.
Muhammad Nur said the leaked , gas , was identified as ethyl mercaptan, and the cause was an “unused container” at the , service.
” Work to include the , leak , was being done by the crisis crew”, he said, adding that the container may be dismantled and disposed of.
Muhammad Nur said ethyl mercaptan is added to liquefied petroleum , gas , to give it a smell, alerting people to any leakage. The , gas , has a strong taste equivalent to rotten vegetables.