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Thursday, May 7, 2020
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Thursday, May 7, 2020
5 dead, hundreds in hospital after gas leak at India chemical plant
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleAt least five people have been killed and several hundred hospitalized after a gas leak at a chemicals plant on the east coast of India, police say.
They say that the gas had leaked out of two 5,000-ton tanks that had been unattended due to India’s coronavirus lockdown, in place since late March.
“We can confirm at least five deaths right now. More will be confirmed later. At least 70 people in the nearby hospitals are in an unconscious state and overall 200 to 500 locals are still getting treatment (at the hospitals),” says police official Swaroop Rani in Visakhapatnam.
— AFP
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