In an eerie incident reminiscent of the Bhopal gas tragedy in 1984, a chemical gas leak in the port city of Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh has left at least 11 dead and hundreds sick. Dramatic visuals showed scores of people lying unconscious in lanes and ditches after styrene, a toxic gas used mainly to make polystyrene plastics and resins, escaped storage tanks at a facility near Gopalapatnam of LG Polymers India, an arm of South Korea\u2019s LG Chem Ltd. Reports suggest that the leakage may have started at around 2:30am on Thursday. A probe will be needed to establish the sequence of events and lapses in safety protocols, but the accident is said to have occurred around the time some workers carried out a check on an unattended gas tank in order to resume operations after more than a month of lockdown. According to a statement issued by the company, the leakage had been contained, while local officials claimed that the gas had been turned into a harmless liquid and thus neutralized. This is of little comfort to those exposed to the factory\u2019s noxious fumes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In an eerie incident reminiscent of the Bhopal gas tragedy in 1984, a chemical gas leak in the port city of Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh has left at least 11 dead and hundreds sick. Dramatic visuals showed scores of people lying unconscious in lanes and ditches after styrene, a toxic gas used mainly to make polystyrene plastics and resins, escaped storage tanks at a facility near Gopalapatnam of LG Polymers India, an arm of South Korea\u2019s LG Chem Ltd. Reports suggest that the leakage may have started at around 2:30am on Thursday. A probe will be needed to establish the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-350411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}