Reuters
At least 11 people were killed in India in a gas leak at a South Korean-owned factory making polystyrene products that made hundreds of people sick and led to the evacuation of villagers living nearby, officials said.
The accident occurred some 14 km (9 miles) inland from the east coast city of Visakhapatnam, in Andhra Pradesh state, at a plant operated by LG Polymers, a unit of South Korea’s biggest petrochemical maker, LG Chem Ltd.
Srijana Gummalla, commissioner of the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation, said gas from styrene, a principal raw materials at the plant, leaked during the early hours of the morning, when families in the surrounding villages were asleep. More
Tack 11 more on to the Corona total. They would here.
Was Custer or Dupont around? Cause they killed the most Indians.
Who killed more Indians than John Wayne? Union Carbide.
The Bhopal leak in the mid-80s was a result of the local “talent”.
Very hard to get them to follow the rules and maintain things.
India has a significant history of industrial plants leaking gas and killing people living nearby.
Didn’t Union Carbide change it’s name after their industrial accident that killed a shitload of Indians back in the 70’s? And does anyone else remember when Union Carbide was a big sponsor of Walter Cronkite’s CBS documentary program The 20th Century. Union Carbide was parodied in the 70’s satire film as the Uranus Corporation, makers of Brown 25.