7 women killed in toxic gas leak at seafood plant in India

Seven women workers were killed and dozens more hospitalized in India after a major ammonia gas leak at a seafood processing and export unit in Tamil Nadu's Tiruvallur district, Indian media reports said on Sunday, Report informs referring to Gulf News.

The leak occurred at a private seafood processing facility in Kannigaipair village near Periyapalayam, where around 120 migrant workers, many of them women from Assam, Odisha and Jharkhand, were staying on the premises, according to updates.

Authorities said 67 workers were affected by the toxic gas leak and rushed to nearby hospitals for treatment.

Doctors treating the victims said most of the affected workers were young women in their early twenties.

A senior physician at a private hospital said 15 to 16 patients had to be intubated, with 11 placed on ventilator support.