1 MAY ,2023
11 dead after inhaling toxic gas in Ludhiana (PG 1)(GS 3)
1 MAY ,2023
•NDRF’s air quality sensors detected high
levels of is yet to be identified;
• victims were from three families, all hailing hydrogen sulphide, but the source of the gas
from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.
•Eleven people — three of them children from a family — died and four were taken ill on inhaling toxic gas at Giaspura in Ludhiana on Sunday, officials said. Though the gas has been identified as hydrogen sulphide, its source is yet to be identified, they said. Panic spread as people who came to a grocery store in the morning fainted.
• Soon, the area was cordoned off, and National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and National Disaster Management Authority teams and State government officials were deployed.
•The residents were evacuated, and drones deployed to look for possible victims who could have been lying unconscious. “In the air quality sensors used by the NDRF team, high levels of hydrogen sulphide gas have been detected and it is ascertained that this gas might have led to the tragic incident. The team of Ludhiana Municipal Corporation is also working to ensure that there is no further chemical contamination,” Deputy Commissioner Surabhi Malik told the media