Chennai, Seven workers, all women hailing from Odisha, died and 68 others were hospitalised following an ammonia gas leak at a private seafood processing and export facility in Tamil Nadu's Tiruvallur district, officials said on Monday.
According to a media bulletin issued by the state Health and Family Welfare Department, the toxic industrial chemical leak occurred during routine industrial operations on June 21, at the facility located in the Kannigaipair/Manjungaranai area near Periyapalayam.
