{"id":17958,"date":"2020-05-07T16:18:48","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T07:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/07\/gas-leak-at-chemical-factory-in-india-kills-hospitalises-lg-polymers"},"modified":"2020-05-07T16:18:48","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T07:18:48","slug":"hundreds-in-hospital-after-leak-at-indian-chemical-factory-closed-by-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17958","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds in hospital after leak at Indian chemical factory closed by lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds hospitalised after gas leak from the LG Polymers plant in Andra Pradesh state while local families were asleep<\/p>\n<p>A gas leak at a chemical factory in southern India has killed at least nine people and led to hundreds being taken to hospital, amid fears that the death toll could climb higher.<\/p>\n<p>Styrene leaked from the Korean-owned LG Polymers plant during the early hours of Thursday morning when families in the surrounding villages were asleep, a local official in Andra Pradesh state said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/07\/gas-leak-at-chemical-factory-in-india-kills-hospitalises-lg-polymers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds hospitalised after gas leak from the LG Polymers plant in Andra Pradesh state while local families were asleepA gas leak at a chemical factory in southern India has killed at least nine people and led to hundreds being taken to hospital, amid &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,65,62,1390,222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-environment","category-india","category-lg","category-south-korea"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17959,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17958\/revisions\/17959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}