At least six people have died from a gas leak at a Indian chemical plant, with another 200 hospitalized and hundreds more potentially affected, authorities confirmed
Thursday.
The leak, which happened at the LG Polymers plant in the city of Visakhapatnam, in India's southern state of Andhra Pradesh, took place in the early hours of Thursday morning local time. Footage from the scene shows people lying crumpled and unconscious on the ground, some next to motorcycles and vehicles that have toppled over. The plant is located close to a village of between 3,000 to 4,000 residents.
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