BHOPAL: It was the fear of 1984 once again in Bhopal’s Idgah Hills locality on Wednesday evening as a gas leak from a water filtration plant left people in the densely-populated locality coughing, vomiting and gasping in panic.
Bhopal Municipal Corporation (BMC) officials say it was a chlorine leak and no one was seriously hurt. A major incident was averted as firefighters and plant employees showed presence of mind and used a crane to throw the 1.5 tonne cylinder into a water tank, sources said. It had 900kg of chlorine.
