Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K Palaniswami on Thursday condoled the death of eleven people in a gas leak in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh and prayed for the early recovery of those affected.
Palaniswami said he was grieved to learn of the death of many people following a gas leak from a polymer plant at a village near Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh.
He condoled the deaths of people and extended his sympathies to the bereaved.
"I pray to the almighty God," the Chief Minister said in an official release for the early recovery of those affected in the mishap and now being treated at hospitals in the neighbouring state.
A major early morning gas leak from a polymer plant near Visakhapatnam impacted villages in a five-km radius, leaving eleven people dead and over 200 were hospitalised who reported breathlessness and other problems.
The Andhra Pradesh government has ordered a probe into the leak of styrene, a chemical used to make synthetic rubber and resins, among others.
(PTI report)
