AP gas leak: Apparel workers now stable

Visakhapatnam: Workers of an apparel manufacturing unit in the Brandix Special Economic Zone at Atchyutapuram near here, who fell sick on August 2 night due to what was suspected to be a mysterious gas leak, were stable as they were being treated in different hospitals. With the state government yet to issue a statement on the incident, the opposition parties lashed out at the former over its alleged failure to prevent such mishaps. According to the latest count, some 95 workers fell sick with nausea and vomiting after they inhaled a pungent gas that filled the air at the manufacturing unit on Tuesday night. They were undergoing treatment in hospitals in Anakapalli, Atchyutapuram and Visakhapatnam. It was a second such incident in two months after the one on June 3 in the same place.   – PTI