WORLD : Chlorine Spill Kills 4 in India
Chlorine gas seeped from a small paint factory early today, killing four people and injuring about 90 others living in a nearby shantytown, police said.
The dead included a 3-year-old girl, her 8-year-old brother and their 35-year-old father, and a worker at the factory.
At least 20 of the injured were hospitalized, many in serious condition, said police officials, speaking on condition of anonymity.
According to police, the gas leaked from a cylinder that was later plugged and removed from the factory. An arrest warrant was issued for the factory owner, they said.
In 1984, about 3,600 people were killed and 20,000 injured when poisonous methyl isocyanate gas leaked from a pesticide plant in the central Indian town of Bhopal. The factory was run by the Indian subsidiary of the U.S.-based Union Carbide Corp.
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