When gas began leaking from a nearby chemical factory and drifting towards his house in southern India, there were no warnings and no alarms, welder Elamanchili Venkatesh said.
Municipal workers decontaminate outside of the LG Polymers Plant following a gas leak at the plant in Visakhapatnam, India, May 8, 2020. REUTERS/R Narendra
His mother died soon afterwards. She was one of 11 people killed after gas from styrene, a raw material used at the factory, leaked into the air around 2:30 a.m. and enveloped homes on the outskirts of Visakhapatnam city in Andhra Pradesh state, officials said.“Why couldn’t they have raised an alarm? Don’t they have a siren in the company to alert citizens when something like this happens?” he said. “I didn’t hear anything.
“The exact cause of the incident is currently being investigated and will be notified as the findings and information becomes more concrete,” it said. Over the next few hours, police, firemen and ambulance crews evacuated about 4,500 families living in the villages surrounding the factory. Avinash Kumar Gusida, 28, who also came to rescue a stranded friend, saw several children, adults and several dogs and cows lying unconscious. “It was very, very horrible,” he said.
Patrudu said Venkatesh’s mother was found lying unconscious about 400 metres from the house. His father and older niece lay motionless nearby.
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