Several people were hospitalised following an ammonia gas leak from a fertiliser manufacturing unit at Ennore in Tamil Nadu’s Chennai. The gas leaked from the plant at about 11.45 pm on Tuesday, following which an odour that caused discomfort spread across the neighbourhood.
Soon, over 25 people in residential neighbourhoods, such as Periya Kuppam in the vicinity of the manufacturing facility, experienced unease, nausea and faintness and they were taken to nearby hospitals, according to sources.
Tamil Nadu Health Minister Ma Subramanian on Wednesday met several people who have been hospitalised after the gas leak.
#WATCH | Tamil Nadu Health Minister Ma Subramanian meets the people who have been hospitalised after the ammonia gas leak at a chemical factory in Ennore. pic.twitter.com/CdS4p5xLmw— ANI (@ANI) December 27, 2023
As soon as word spread about the gas leak, people rushed out of their homes in panic, gathered on roads and sought help.
At the same time, sources said officials of the fertiliser unit ‘took steps to rectify the technical issue.’
Police personnel pacified people by telling them that experts are addressing the issue and requested them to go back to their homes as ‘there is no problem’.
(With PTI Inputs)
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