At least nine dead and 300 hospitalized after suspected leak of styrene gas at LG Polymers plant in southern India. More here:
The commissioner of the Visakhapatnam city corporation said styrene leaked from the plant during the early hours of the morning, when families in the surrounding villages were asleep.
More than 120 villagers were taken to hospitals and at least three surrounding villages were being evacuated, an official in the office of the district’s top bureaucrat said.
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