Over 25 hospitalized after Ammonia gas leak from Chennai fertilizer unit
PTI. Over 25 people in residential neighborhoods such as Periya Kuppam in the vicinity of the manufacturing facility experienced unease, nausea, and faintness and they were taken to nearby hospitals, sources added.
As soon as word spread about the gas leak, people rushed out of their homes in panic, gathered on roads, and sought help. At the same time, officials of the fertilizer unit ‘took steps to rectify the technical issue’, the sources said as quoted by PTI. Police personnel pacified people by telling them that experts were addressing the issue and requested them to go back to their homes as 'there is no problem'.
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