Extremely Disturbing Videos and Pictures Coming out of Visakhapatnam Gas Leakage
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God Forbid but visuals remind me of Bhopal Gas Tragedy!
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Omg....this is like bopal all over again
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Hundreds in hospital after deadly gas leak at Indian chemical factory
Gas from LG Polymers plant in Andhra Pradesh leaked into nearby homes while families slept
Michael Safi, Amrit Dhillon in Delhi and Aruna Chandrasekhar
Thu 7 May 2020 08.18 BSTFirst published on Thu 7 May 2020 06.28 BST
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Several killed and hundreds in hospital after gas leak from chemical plant in India – video report
A gas leak at a chemical factory in south-east India has killed at least nine people, including two children, and led to hundreds being taken to hospital, with fears the death toll could grow.
Styrene from the plastics plant owned by Korea’s LG Corp started leaking into the surrounding residential area from about 3am on Thursday morning, incapacitating some people in their homes and causing others to collapse in the streets in the area on the outskirts of Visakhapatnam city on India’s east coast.
Police said the leak was from two 5,000-tonne tanks that had been unattended since India imposed a coronavirus lockdown in late March, though a spokesman for LG said maintenance staff were present at the facility when the accident occurred.
Footage from the area around the plant showed people, including children, lying in the streets, and dead cows with white substances trailing from their noses. News of the leak triggered a mass exodus and some appeared to have collapsed as they were trying to flee the area on foot or by motor-scooters.
One of the victims, a medical student, was overcome with fumes and fell from his balcony, said Dr Surendra Kumar Chellarapu, a neurosurgeon at the local King George’s hospital.
“He woke up gasping for breath and rushed out onto the balcony of his room for air. But he lost his balance and fell two floors down from the balcony. He died later at the hospital of head injuries,” Chellarapu said.
He said ambulances were lining up at the hospital on Thursday morning with affected people. “Most were suffering from vomiting, eye irritation, skin rashes and breathing problems but most are out of danger,” he said.
The hospital was already struggling with Covid-19 patients and would be severely strained by the leak, he added.
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Dead cows following a gas leak incident from an LG Polymers plant in Visakhapatnam. Photograph: AFP via Getty Images
A general surgeon at King George’s hospital, Dr N Dwarakanath, said that of about 300 patients there, most were older, more than 40 were children and 15 were on ventilators.
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But B K Naik, the district hospitals coordinator, said at least 1,000 people had been sent to different hospitals, and that it was feared many others may be unconscious in their homes.
“Another thing is that it is still too early in the morning, and there are people who were sleeping inside their homes [around the gas leak] and are unconscious,” Naik told Agence France-Presse.
“The authorities are checking [in houses] as well. We are working to get people to the hospital. They need oxygenation and fresh air.”
Visakhapatnam is an industrial port city halfway between Kolkata and Chennai and has about 5 million residents. The wider region has a cluster of chemical factories, about which environmentalists have regularly raised concerns.
LG Corp released a statement in South Korea late on Thursday morning indicating gas had stopped leaking from the plant. “The gas leak situation is now under control and we are exploring all ways to provide speedy treatment for those who suffer from inhaling the leaked gas,” the statement said.
It confirmed the plant was not operating because of the lockdown, but said there were maintenance staff at the facility.
“While it’s true that the factory wasn’t operating as it was under lockdown, there were maintenance workers inside,” a company spokesman told AFP in Seoul. “A worker on night shift discovered the leak and reported it.”
Swarupa Rani, an assistant commissioner of police in Visakhapatnam, said local residents raised the alarm about 3:30am, saying there was gas in the air, and that police officers who rushed to the scene had to quickly retreat for fear of being poisoned.
“One could feel the gas in the air and it was not possible for any of us to stay there for more than a few minutes,” she said.
EAS Sarma, a former Indian finance secretary who lives a few kilometres from the residential area where the plant is located, said residents had been raising concerns for years about its safety.
“The industrial safety culture in this state is very poor and the regulatory bodies are very lax,” he said.
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The Visakhapatnam corporation tweeted a request for citizens in the vicinity of the plant to stay indoors. Images posted on Twitter showed emergency services including police officers, firefighters and ambulances in the area.
Areas within an approximately 3km (nearly two-mile) 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.
In December 1984, India witnessed one of the worst industrial disasters in history when gas leaked from a pesticide plant in the central city of Bhopal.
About 3,500 people, mainly in shanties around the plant operated by Union Carbide, died in the days that followed and thousands more lost lives in the following years. People continue to suffer the after-effects.
Government statistics say that at least 100,000 people living near the Union Carbide plant have been victims of chronic illnesses.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...ctory-in-india-kills-hospitalises-lg-polymers
Gas from LG Polymers plant in Andhra Pradesh leaked into nearby homes while families slept
Michael Safi, Amrit Dhillon in Delhi and Aruna Chandrasekhar
Thu 7 May 2020 08.18 BSTFirst published on Thu 7 May 2020 06.28 BST
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Several killed and hundreds in hospital after gas leak from chemical plant in India – video report
A gas leak at a chemical factory in south-east India has killed at least nine people, including two children, and led to hundreds being taken to hospital, with fears the death toll could grow.
Styrene from the plastics plant owned by Korea’s LG Corp started leaking into the surrounding residential area from about 3am on Thursday morning, incapacitating some people in their homes and causing others to collapse in the streets in the area on the outskirts of Visakhapatnam city on India’s east coast.
Police said the leak was from two 5,000-tonne tanks that had been unattended since India imposed a coronavirus lockdown in late March, though a spokesman for LG said maintenance staff were present at the facility when the accident occurred.
Footage from the area around the plant showed people, including children, lying in the streets, and dead cows with white substances trailing from their noses. News of the leak triggered a mass exodus and some appeared to have collapsed as they were trying to flee the area on foot or by motor-scooters.
One of the victims, a medical student, was overcome with fumes and fell from his balcony, said Dr Surendra Kumar Chellarapu, a neurosurgeon at the local King George’s hospital.
“He woke up gasping for breath and rushed out onto the balcony of his room for air. But he lost his balance and fell two floors down from the balcony. He died later at the hospital of head injuries,” Chellarapu said.
He said ambulances were lining up at the hospital on Thursday morning with affected people. “Most were suffering from vomiting, eye irritation, skin rashes and breathing problems but most are out of danger,” he said.
The hospital was already struggling with Covid-19 patients and would be severely strained by the leak, he added.
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Dead cows following a gas leak incident from an LG Polymers plant in Visakhapatnam. Photograph: AFP via Getty Images
A general surgeon at King George’s hospital, Dr N Dwarakanath, said that of about 300 patients there, most were older, more than 40 were children and 15 were on ventilators.
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But B K Naik, the district hospitals coordinator, said at least 1,000 people had been sent to different hospitals, and that it was feared many others may be unconscious in their homes.
“Another thing is that it is still too early in the morning, and there are people who were sleeping inside their homes [around the gas leak] and are unconscious,” Naik told Agence France-Presse.
“The authorities are checking [in houses] as well. We are working to get people to the hospital. They need oxygenation and fresh air.”
Visakhapatnam is an industrial port city halfway between Kolkata and Chennai and has about 5 million residents. The wider region has a cluster of chemical factories, about which environmentalists have regularly raised concerns.
LG Corp released a statement in South Korea late on Thursday morning indicating gas had stopped leaking from the plant. “The gas leak situation is now under control and we are exploring all ways to provide speedy treatment for those who suffer from inhaling the leaked gas,” the statement said.
It confirmed the plant was not operating because of the lockdown, but said there were maintenance staff at the facility.
“While it’s true that the factory wasn’t operating as it was under lockdown, there were maintenance workers inside,” a company spokesman told AFP in Seoul. “A worker on night shift discovered the leak and reported it.”
Swarupa Rani, an assistant commissioner of police in Visakhapatnam, said local residents raised the alarm about 3:30am, saying there was gas in the air, and that police officers who rushed to the scene had to quickly retreat for fear of being poisoned.
“One could feel the gas in the air and it was not possible for any of us to stay there for more than a few minutes,” she said.
EAS Sarma, a former Indian finance secretary who lives a few kilometres from the residential area where the plant is located, said residents had been raising concerns for years about its safety.
“The industrial safety culture in this state is very poor and the regulatory bodies are very lax,” he said.
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The Visakhapatnam corporation tweeted a request for citizens in the vicinity of the plant to stay indoors. Images posted on Twitter showed emergency services including police officers, firefighters and ambulances in the area.
Areas within an approximately 3km (nearly two-mile) 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.
In December 1984, India witnessed one of the worst industrial disasters in history when gas leaked from a pesticide plant in the central city of Bhopal.
About 3,500 people, mainly in shanties around the plant operated by Union Carbide, died in the days that followed and thousands more lost lives in the following years. People continue to suffer the after-effects.
Government statistics say that at least 100,000 people living near the Union Carbide plant have been victims of chronic illnesses.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...ctory-in-india-kills-hospitalises-lg-polymers
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This is very disturbing. Hopefully the people rushed to the hospitals are able to recover. Dying through suffocation or choking is one of the worst ways to go
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Tragedy is tragedy, hope poor people are ok insha'Allah
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Very disturbing and sad..
