An-Najah News - At least 9 people were killed in southern India by a gas leak at a South Korean-owned factory making polystyrene products.the accident occurred some 14 kilometres  inland from the east coast city of Visakhapatnam, in Andhra Pradesh state.

 Police official said emergency services rushing over 300 people to hospitals and evacuating 1,500 from a nearby village.

According to both the company spokesman and Gummalla, the plant was being reopened after India relaxed a nationwide lockdown that had been imposed on March 25 to contain the spread of the new coronavirus.
Areas within an approximately 3-kilometre (nearly 2-mile)radius of the plant were vulnerable, the municipal corporation said in a tweet. Cross-referencing maps of the affected area, there is at least one coronavirus containment zone in the neighbourhood.