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S.Korea’s LG Chem sends delegation to India to probe deadly gas leak

Seoul | ByReuters | Posted by: Shankhyaneel Sarkar
May 13, 2020 05:48 AM IST

An eight-member delegation will meet the affected residents and government officials.

South Korea’s LG Chem said on Wednesday that it had sent a delegation to India to investigate the cause of a toxic gas leak at its chemical plant there that killed 11 people and forced 800 into hospital for treatment from poisoning.

Smokes rise from an LG Polymers plant following a gas leak incident in Visakhapatnam.(ANI)
Smokes rise from an LG Polymers plant following a gas leak incident in Visakhapatnam.(ANI)

LG Chem said the eight-member delegation, led by its petrochemicals business head, will brief support measures to affected residents and meet with India government officials.

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The accident occurred some 14 km (9 miles) inland from the east coast city of Visakhapatnam, in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, at a plant operated by LG Polymers, a unit of South Korea’s biggest petrochemical maker, LG Chem.

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