WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT - A chemical gas leak at an LG Polymers facility in India’s southern Andhra Pradesh state killed at least nine people, and emergency services rushed more than 300 to hospital
The accident occurred some 14 kilometres inland from the east coast city of Visakhapatnam, in Andhra Pradesh state, at a plant operated by LG Polymers, a unit of South Korea’s biggest petrochemical maker, LG Chem Ltd.
According to both the company spokesman and Gummalla, the plant was being reopened after India relaxed a nationwide lockdown that had been imposed on March 25 to contain the spread of the new coronavirus. Areas within an approximately 3-kilometre radius of the plant were vulnerable, the municipal corporation said in a tweet. Cross-referencing maps of the affected area, there is at least one coronavirus containment zone in the neighbourhood.LISTLESS AND UNCONSCIOUS
Others in his neighbourhood also complained of eye irritation, Ambati said, while some said they had a stomach ache. He then called a friend living a few kilometres away and quickly moved there. “I personally helped more than 15 people get to an ambulance who had tried to run away from the village but dropped down within a few metres,” she said.
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