Gas leak kills 11 people in northern India

Gas leak kills 11 people in northern India
Eleven folks died and 4 extra have been hospitalised after a gasoline leak Sunday in northern India’s Punjab state, native media reported.

The incident occurred at an industrial space in Ludhiana metropolis, however the supply of the gasoline leak continues to be unclear, police instructed the Press Trust of India news company.

India’s National Disaster Response Force sealed off the densely populated space and evacuated residents.

A gasoline leak has killed 11 folks in northern India. (AP)

Authorities have been attempting to establish the kind of gasoline within the leak, PTI quoted catastrophe response officers as saying.

Ludhiana Deputy Commissioner Surabhi Malik instructed the news company it was potential that the gasoline might have unfold from manholes.

“We are going to collect samples from manholes. It is quite likely that some chemical reacted with methane in manholes,” she stated.

The state’s chief minister, Bhagwant Mann, stated the leak got here from a manufacturing unit however did not present extra particulars in a tweet.

“All possible help is being provided,” he wrote.

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