Surat: After a gas leak at a company in Gujarat’s Surat six people died and 20 others were admitted to the civil hospital soon after the incident as per media reports.Citing Omkar Chaudhary, the in-charge of the civil hospital, the report said the incident took place in the Sachin GIDC area of the city.
The local police are still carrying out relief and rescue operations in the area. A report carried by the publication indicates that the accidental gas leakage occurred when a tanker driver was pouring chemicals into a drain near the printing mill. By the time people in the vicinity understood what was happening, the poisonous gases had already whisked across through the open outlets and taken the lives of as many as five people in the moments after, the report said.
Other details were not immediately available. Negligence and lack of safety norms often contribute to such accidents in India.
In 2020, a gas leak in a South Korean-owned chemical factory killed 12 people and sickened hundreds in Vishakhapatnam, a port city in Andhra Pradesh state.
The gas that leaked from the factory was styrene, which is used to make plastic and rubber. Styrene gas is a neurotoxin and can immobilize people within minutes of inhalation.
There were total of 28 workers, all of whom were taken to hospital and 20 others are undergoing treatment.
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