{"id":24967,"date":"2020-05-07T13:16:21","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T07:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/visakhapatnam-gas-leak-clamour-for-lg-polymers-plant-closure-g-8-die-after-chemical-leak\/"},"modified":"2020-05-07T13:16:21","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T07:46:21","slug":"visakhapatnam-gas-leak-clamour-for-lg-polymers-plant-closure-g-8-die-after-chemical-leak-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=24967","title":{"rendered":"Visakhapatnam gas leak | Clamour for LG Polymers\u2019 plant closure grows as 8 die after chemical leak"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>According to initial reports, styrene gas from the plant spread over a radius of about five kilometres, affecting at least five villages.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/cities\/Visakhapatnam\/many-fall-sick-after-gas-leak-at-lg-polymers-plant-in-visakhapatnam\/article31523178.ece\">PTI<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eight persons, including a six-year-old girl, died and scores of others were admitted to the government hospital at Gopalapatnam and the King George Hospital, following the leakage of poisonous gas from the Hindustan Polymers plant at RR Venkatapuram, Gopalapatnam, Visakhapatnam, on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Vizag Gas Leak: Several Dead, PM Modi \u2018Assures All Help\u2019 to Andhra CM | The Quint\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0QmAumLBGSo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A toll free number 1800 4250 0009 is available for any assistance with regard to this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The gas leak occurred at the LG Polymers Plant between 2.30 a.m. and 3 a.m. and reportedly spread over a radius of about three km, affecting at least five villages, including R.R. Venkatapuram, Padmapuram, B.C. Colony and Kamparapalem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to initial reports, styrene gas from the plant spread over a radius of about five kilometres, affecting at least five villages. PTI Eight persons, including a six-year-old girl, died and scores of others were admitted to the government hospital at Gopalapatnam and the King George Hospital, following the leakage of poisonous gas from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17143,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}