COVID-19：韓国LG化学、インドで有毒ガス漏れ：city of Visakhapatnam（動画）：
Indian protesters carry bodies into gas leak plant Toggle navigation：
印度抗议者将尸体带入煤气泄漏工厂
韓国LG化学：
2020年5月10日
- LGポリマー工場で有毒ガス漏れ発生
- 木曜日、ヴィシャカパトナムで、犠牲者を輸送
デモ隊：LG化学閉鎖を要求
300人/デモ隊が、土曜日インドのLG化学工場を襲撃、有毒ガス漏れで死亡した施設の閉鎖を要求した。
事故は、木曜日夜明け前、産業港湾都市ビシャカパトナムで発生しました。
その地域在住の数百人が負傷、多くの住民が、気絶しています。
State government officials
arrived to conduct a safety tour of the plant, owned by South Korea’s LG Chem, when a crowd of about 300 people barged past police and security guards.
Some helped cart stretchers bearing three victims of the disaster, their feet sticking out from under the black canvas covers that otherwise shrouded the bodies.
They chanted slogans demandingjustice
for the dead and the shutdown of the plant before they were pushed back by security.
“I saw people carrying their children on their shoulders looking for water. They could not move because of the gas, I thought they were dead,” said one man.
At least three children were among the dead and dozens remain in hospital.
Authorities
have started a manslaughter investigation over the leak and India’s environmental tribunal has already fined the company $6.2m as a preliminary punishment.
Police said
the plant had been left idle because of India’s nationwide coronavirus lockdown and suspect the leak was caused by gas left in a tanker that overheated.
LG Chem
confirmed the polystyrene plant was not operating at the time of the accident but insisted there were maintenance staff at the facility.
The disaster
has evoked memories of a major leak at a gas plant in the Indian city of Bhopal that killed at least 3,500 people in 1984.
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