At least 112 female Indian workers have been hospitalized after a gas leak at a garment factory in southern India, police said Wednesday (Aug 2).
Workers suffered from nausea and vomiting at a factory in Atchyutapuram district in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday. “The women are all in stable condition. No death. Investigation continues“, a senior police official told AFP, Pak Upendra.
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A similar incident occurred in June, in the same area where 200 women lost consciousness after a gas leak, recalls channel NDTV. In 2020, at least five people died and hundreds were hospitalized following a gas leak at a chemical plant in Visakhapatnam, an industrial port city in the same state. In 1984, India witnessed one of the worst industrial disasters in its history, which occurred at a pesticide factory in Bhopal, in the center of the country.
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Some 3,500 residents of the plant, which is operated by Union Carbide, died in the days following the toxic gas leak. Even today, the population is suffering the consequences. Children are born with defects and defects caused by gases affecting their mothers.
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