Municipal workers decontaminate the area outside the LG Polymers Plant following a gas leak in Visakhapatnam on May 8, 2020
South Korea’s LG Chem said on Wednesday that it had sent a delegation to India to investigate the cause of a toxic gas leak at its chemical plant there that killed 11 people and forced 800 into hospital for treatment from poisoning.
LG Chem said the eight-member delegation, led by its petrochemicals business head, will brief support measures to affected residents and meet with Indian government officials.
The accident occurred some 14 km (9 miles) inland from the east coast city of Visakhapatnam, in Andhra Pradesh, at a plant operated by LG Polymers, a unit of South Korea’s biggest petrochemical maker, LG Chem.
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