Gas leak kills 11 in India

A gas leak killed 11 people in India on Sunday, in the latest deadly industrial accident.

The gas leak occurred in Giaspura, an industrial area in Punjab.

"Eleven deaths have been confirmed," Mandeep Singh Sidhu, the police commissioner in the area, told reporters, adding that four people were hospitalized.

The cause of the leak has not yet been determined.
Five women were among those who died, broadcaster NDTV reported, while the other six victims included two boys aged 10 and 13, according to authorities.

Industrial gas leaks due to lax safety standards and inadequate controls are common in India.

Last August, at least 112 women were hospitalized after a gas leak at a garment factory in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh.

This followed a similar accident in June, when around 200 women lost consciousness after a gas leak in the same area.

In 2020, at least 15 people were killed and hundreds hospitalized after a gas leak at a chemical plant in Visakhapatnam, an industrial port city in the same state.

Nearly 1,000 people were exposed to the gas and more than 500 were hospitalized with symptoms of severe respiratory distress and skin and eye irritation./REL

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