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Six dead and 1,000 hospitalised in India chemical plant gas leak

The LG Polymers chemical plant where a gas leak occurred, May 7, 2020 in Visakhapatnam, India.

A gas leak at a chemical plant in south-eastern India killed at least six people on Thursday and led to the hospitalization of a thousand others, according to a still provisional official report which the authorities fear to see. to become heavier.

The leak occurred in the middle of the night in a factory operated by LG Polymers, an Indian subsidiary of the South Korean company LG Chemicals, and located on the edge of the industrial and port city of Visakhapatnam, in the State of Andhra Pradesh.

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