Ammonia gas leak from Haryana plant, 100 affected

Wednesday,19 February 2020 04:46 AM IST

Chandigarh: At least 100 people were impacted, including 50 fainted after inhaling ammonia gas that leaked from a cold storage plant in Harayan's Kurukshetra district, police said on Wednesday. Two of them were seriously ill and admitted to the Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Hospital in Kurukshetra, some 100 km from the state capital. The police evacuated 100 people from nearby residential areas of Hargovind cold storage in Nalvi village. The cause of gas leakage was not known yet.