More evacuations near Indian factory after fatal gas leak

Smoke rises from LG Polymers plant, the site of a chemical gas leakage, in Vishakhapatnam, India, Thursday, May 7, 2020. Synthetic chemical styrene leaked from the industrial plant in southern India early Thursday, leaving people struggling to breathe and collapsing in the streets as they tried to flee. Administrator Vinay Chand said several people fainted on the road and were rushed to a hospital.

“No, there was not another leakage,” National Disaster Response Force spokesman Krishan Kumar said Friday. The initial evacuations on Thursday affected about 3,000 people. Authorities didn’t immediately say how many people were affected by the newer evacuations.State police chief Damodar Gautam Sawang said 800 people had been released after medical treatment.

“Our initial information is that workers were checking a gas storage tank when it started leaking,” Industries Minister M. Goutham Reddy said Thursday. Residents said they were woken by a pungent smell around 3:30 a.m. Thursday. The blanket of gas spread about 3 kilometers , sickening people in at least four villages. The leak was stopped by 8 a.m., officials said.

South Korea’s Foreign Ministry said Friday its ambassador to India had expressed regrets and condolences over the gas leak. A ministry statement said the South Korean government is closely monitoring efforts to handle the aftermath.

Another Bhopal?

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IntelDoge It's the Bhopal Union Carbide fiasco again. Hopefully not as deadly this time

Nobody gonna prosecute LG Polymers plant owners. Not even a single person will go to jail. Government is so eager to give tax payers money to victims than making the company to pay for it. There will be big cover-up and people gonna forgot it by weekend. VizagGasTragedy Vizag

Más de 75,000 decesos por el COVID-19 en Estados Unidos... Contacto:

Hi. I see you wrote 'South Korea' but did you know that Koreans don't really like it when you specify 'South' when it's not totally necessary to what you're saying? It's a painful and unwelcome reminder of our divided country. Please consider this in the future. 감사합니다!

so supposedly it's from tanks left during the lockdown that started leaking after restrictions eased... what kind of chemical tanks leak without supervision? Is holding things not their sole purpose? Why did a test trigger the leak? Do they not test tanks' ability to hold things?

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