Durgapur:
A gas leak at a steel plant in West Bengal has led to at least 15 workers being hospitalized.
On Thursday morning, 25 workers at the Durgapur Steel Plant who were on duty in a zone referred to as Blast Furnace 2 complained of nausea, drowsiness and breathlessness. They were given first aid and then moved to hospital. Ten of them have been released.
The management of the plant originally denied a gas leak was to blame, but later confirmed some blast furnace gas had escaped from the scrubber area of the gas cleaning plant. The leak was sealed and operations at the plant are back to normal.
A committee headed by the plant's General Manager will investigate the accident.