Engineers have been working on preventing more toxic gas escaping at a chemical plant on India's east coast, a day after yesterday’s (Thursday) pre-dawn leak killed 12 people, and left hundreds hospitalised outside the industrial port city of Visakhapatnam. Local police said the evacuation zone around the plant owned by South Korea's LG Chem was widened late yesterday with hundreds more people in 10 localities brought to safety as a precaution. LG Chem confirmed the plant, which makes polystyrene products, was not operating because of the lockdown, but there were maintenance staff at the facility.
