3 hours agoTragedy in India: Gas leaks into the chemical factory, reports of thousands of hospitalized and many dead
Periskopi(6 years ago)
(6 years ago)A gas leak at a chemical plant in southern India has killed at least nine people and has caused hundreds more to be rushed to the hospital amid fears that the death toll could go too high. Stirren gas stems from a Korean company owned in the hours [...]
Stirren gas stemmed from a Korean company owned during the first hours of today's day when villagers in surrounding areas were still asleep, said an official in the state of Andra Pradesh.
The flow was one of five thousand tons of tanks that were unattended because of the Coronavirus retributive measures in India that have been implemented since the end of March, writes The Guardian, Periscope.
Images from Indian television channels show people, including women, weeping and standing on the streets of Visachaatnam, an industrial city between Kolkata and Chennai.
Swarupa Rani, a police assistant commissioner in Visachapetnam, said at least 9 people had died and between 300 and 400 others were hospitalised. Another 1,000 and 500 people have been evacuated, mainly from surrounding villages.
But a hospital co-ordinator in that district said that at least 1,000 people had been sent to various hospitals, and that they feared that others might be dead in their homes. /Periscope
