Hours after the Visakhapatnam gas tragedy, another case of the gas leak has been reported from Chhattisgarh’s Raipur district from a paper mill affecting at least seven people, police told on Thursday.
The incident is of the same day when the tragic gas leak happened Wednesday overnight at a chemical plant in Andhra Pradesh’s Visakhapatnam.
The reports say that the incident occurred at Shakti Paper Mill in Tetla village, where the victims were cleaning an open tank on Wednesday evening, Raigarh Superintendent of Police Santosh Singh told news agency PTI.
He further told that the factory owner did not inform the administration about the incident. They came to know about it only after the hospital administration alerted.
The mill had remained was closed since the COVID-19 lockdown was enforced and the cleaning work was underway to resume operation, the official said.
According to reports, a team of forensic experts was dispatched to the spot to investigate the case.
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