In a tragic incident on Wednesday, at least three people were killed in a Natural Dairy factory in Patna’s Patliputra due to gas leakage, reports ANI. The reason behind the gas leakage is yet to be known. As of now, the owner of the factory is absconding after the incident. Police have sent the bodies for post-mortem and a case has been registered in this regard. According to news website Scroll.in, the three workers were from West Bengal, and they died of suffocation, city Superintendent of Police D Amarkesh said.
Earlier on January 19 in a somewhat similar kind of incident in Goa’s Chicalim village, two women were admitted to a hospital and hundreds of residents of the village were evacuated from their homes after a tanker carrying ammonia overturned on the nearby highway connecting Vasco City to Panaji. The incident occurred around 2.45 a.m. when the tanker carrying ammonia from Mormugao Port Trust to Zuari Industries Limited, both located in Vasco, overturned at the highway and gas started leaking from it.
Last year on November 20, two workers lost their lives after an alleged gas leak at the coke oven segment of the Durgapur Steel Plant (DSP) in Bengal’s West Burdwan district. Two others also took ill after inhaling toxic fumes, but were declared out of danger at the Durgapur Mission Hospital. The plant is located 158 km from Kolkata, is owned by the Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL).