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The Home Minister has asked officials to submit a detailed report on the sulfur dioxide leakage, as well as safety measures at the pharmaceutical factory.
A catastrophic event unfolded in Yadgir district early Wednesday as a suspected sulphur dioxide leak claimed the lives of three workers and left two others injured. Reports suggest that the chemical leak caused suffocation among the employees present. The victims were migrant laborers hailing from Telangana and Madhya Pradesh, and the survivors are now under medical care at a nearby hospital.
Three contract workers were killed and two others were hospitalised after a toxic gas leak at a pharmaceutical manufacturing unit in Karnataka’s Yadgir district early Wednesday, police said