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[ad_1] Amaravati: Days after its leaked vapor killed 12 people, about 13,000 tonnes of styrene from the LG Polymers plant at RR Venkatapuram near Visakhapatnam is being shipped back to the company’s headquarters in Seoul, South Korea. Besides in one other tank inside the plant, the company had stored styrene, …

[ad_1] Express News Service VIJAYAWADA: Taking a serious view of the gas leak at LG Polymers in Visakhapatnam that claimed 12 lives, the state government is known to have summoned the administration of the South Korean plant along with a team of experts and told them to cooperate with the …

[ad_1] The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) under the Union Interior Ministry has said that manufacturing units that will restart after the Covid-19 blockade ends, should consider the first week as the trial period. “Due to several weeks of closing and the closing of industrial units during the closing period, …

[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 …

[ad_1] Locals gather to protest near the LG Polymers plant where a gas leak killed dozens of people and hospitalized hundreds. (Image: Janak Dave / News18) The police tried to prevent the villagers from going near the plant but the latter ran past the former and staged a sit-in protest …

[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) NGT President …

[ad_1] New Delhi: When Bhopal resident Rasheeda Bee woke up on Thursday morning and saw the news of the gas leak in Visakhapatnam, it brought back painful memories. On the night of December 3, 1984, Bee fled home when poisonous methyl isocyanate gas leaked from the Union Carbide pesticide plant …

[ad_1] When I see images of the Vizag gas leak from the LG plant and hear about the deaths and injured people, it is a strange memory of the time I visited Bhopal in 1985, a few weeks after the toxic gas escaped from the Union Carbide plant in December. …

[ad_1] Leaders across the political spectrum condemned the loss of life in a gas leak at a Visakhapatnam chemical factory on Thursday amid demands for a probe and the relocation of the plant outside the city. President Ram Nath Kovind and Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu expressed their sadness at …

[ad_1] Home / India News / Vizag gas leak: what is styrene and how can it kill if inhaled At least 11 people died and about 1,000 were affected after a factory chemical leaked and hung like smoke in nearby villages in the Visakhapatnam district in the early hours of …