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[ad_1] Smoke rises from the LG Polymers plant, the site of a chemical gas leak, in Vishakhapatnam. The synthetic chemical styrene leaked from the industrial plant in southern India early Thursday, leaving people struggling to breathe and collapsing on the streets as they tried to flee. (Image: AP) The company …

[ad_1] The Andhra Pradesh government announced a door-to-door survey in villages near LG Polymers India Ltd on Saturday to identify people affected by the styrene gas vapor leak that claimed 12 lives in the early hours of Thursday. Two days later, on Saturday morning, hundreds of villagers staged a dharna …