About 200 people were admitted to hospitals with severe breathing problems after an unknown gas leaked from an industrial plant near Bhopal in central India, officials said on Sunday. The accident occurred late on Saturday in Raisen district, which lies adjacent to Bhopal where more than 3,500 people died in December 1984 after gas leaked from an Union Carbide pesticide plant into the city’s atmosphere. “People are complaining of severe breathing problems and many are complaining of itching in their eyes,” Arun Kumar Bhatt, Raisen’s district collector, told Reuters by phone on Sunday. Full Story
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