Nine people died and 11 have been hospitalised after a gas leak in Ludhiana in the northern Indian state of Punjab, according to Indian Asia International News Agency (ANI)
This is not the first incident of its kind. In early August 2022, at least 112 Indian women were hospitalized after a gas leak in a garment factory in southern India
Police officials were seen patrolling, wearing masks, and asking locals to keep out of a cordoned area, the video showed
In June, in the same area, 200 women lost consciousness after a gas leak, according to NDTV.
In 2020, at least 5 people died and hundreds were hospitalized after a gas leak at a chemical plant in Visakhapatnam, an industrial port city in the same state.
In 1984, 40 tons of gas leaked from an insecticide factory in Bhopal (center), killing 3,500 people, mostly residents of shanty towns around the facility, in one of the worst industrial accidents in history.
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