Thousands of people have been evacuated from villages in India near a factory where a gas leak killed 11 people and sickened around 1,000. The LG Polymers plant is owned by South Korea’s largest chemical company.
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.
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