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May 7, 2020

Chemical Gas Leak in India Kills at Least 9, Hundreds Others Hospitalized
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In India, at least nine people have died, including two children, and
hundreds of others are hospitalized, after a gas leak from a chemical
factory in the southeastern region of the country. The styrene leak came
from a plastic plant owned by South Korea's LG Corporation and was
attributed by Indian police to two massive tanks left unattended since
late March amid the coronavirus lockdown. It was the worst mass
poisoning in India since 1984, when a gas leak from a pesticide plant in
the city of Bhopal killed an estimated 20,000 people.


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