Chemical leak at an LG plant in southern India kills 11 people and sickens about 1,000.
State Industries Minister Mekapati Goutham Reddy said rescuers broke open the doors of village homes which were locked from the inside and found some people who had collapsed and transported them to a hospital.
It is looking into the cause of the leak of styrene monomer gas, which is used to produce plastic, but won't know exactly until Indian authorities complete their investigation, company official Song Chun-seob said. Mekapati Goutham Sawang, the state director-general of police, said styrene gas “is not a poisonous or a lethal gas.”
Authorities deployed 25 ambulances to move the victims to hospitals and others away from the accident site.Images from television showed people lying in the streets after they collapsed while trying to flee.
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