While speaking to ANI in the national capital on May 08, the Director General (DG) of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), SN Pradhan spoke on Visakhapatnam gas leak tragedy.
"There are some rumours and media reports about a second leakage. I categorically clarify that it is not true," NDRF Director-General SN Pradhan said in a video message.
Over 60 per cent of the styrene vapour that leaked from a tank in LG Polymers near Visakhapatnam on Thursday, killing at least 11 people, has polymerized so far and all chemical tanks in the plant are safe, District Collector V Vinay Chand said on Friday.
A day after gas leak incident in its Visakhapatnam plant, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed LG Polymers to forthwith deposit an initial amount of Rs. 50 crore with Visakhapatnam district magistrate.
A large number of people decided to sleep outside their houses due to fear over May 7 gas leak incident.
The crucial chemical named PTBC (Para-tertiary butyl catechol) reached Visakhapatnam from Gujarat to neutralize the impact of the gas leak.
Gas fumes were reported to be leaking again from the tanker where there was Styrene leakage earlier on Thursday. "Around 50 fire staffers, with NDRF's support, are carrying out operation. We've ordered evacuation of villages in 2-3 km radius.
Vizag gas leak: The fresh incident in Visakhapatnam was reported late on Thursday. Fumes were seen billowing out of the chemical plant, where the gas leakage in the early hours of the day affected over 300 others.
Now, several Bollywood and Tollywood celebrities have described the gas leak at a chemical plant in Andhra Pradesh's Visakhapatnam as 'another disaster of 2020'.
A six-year-old is among the seven people who have lost their lives after inhaling poisonous gas leaked from LG Polymers plant at RR Venkatapuram, Gopalapatnam, Visakhapatnam, early on Thursday. More than a hundred were taken ill and being treated at King George and a government hospital in Gopalapatnam. Here's the latest from Vizag gas leak tragedy:
Fire tenders, police and ambulances were called on the spot after a thousand people complained of health issues following a chemical gas leak in Visakhapatnam.
PM Modi on Thursday took stock of the situation in Andhra Pradesh’s Visakhapatnam where a gas leak from a chemical plant has left 11 dead, and assured all possible assistance to state Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy.
The gas leak from a chemical plant in Visakhapatnam, which killed at least 11 people and impacted about 1,000, needs to be fully investigated by local authorities, a spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Thursday.
The National Green Tribunal on Thursday took cognisance on its own about the Visakhapatnam gas leak incident killing at least 11 people and impacting about 1,000, many collapsing to the ground as they tried to escape the toxic vapours.
The technical glitch caused the temperature in the chemical storage tank to rise above the safety level of 20 degrees, leading to gasification and consequent evaporation of styrene.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy met those who are hospitalized at King George hospital due to gas leak at chemical plant.
National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) DG SN Pradhan held a press conference in the national capital on May 07.
While speaking to ANI in Hyderabad on May 07, the Minister of Industries and Commerce in Andhra Pradesh government, Mekapati Goutham Reddy spoke on Visakhapatnam gas leakage tragedy.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy on Thursday announced an ex-gratia payment of Rs one crore each to the kin of those killed in the styrene gas leak incident at LG Polymers Limited near Visakhapatnam.
At least seven workers were hospitalized after a gas leak at a paper mill in Chhattisgarh's Raigarh on Thursday. Three of the workers are said to be critical, news agency ANI reported.
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