Chennai, June 24 -- The fatalities in the Sunday's Ammonia gas leak tragedy at a private seafood processing and export unit in Tiruvallur district of Tamil Nadu rose to 10 on Wednesday with one more affected person--a woman hailing from Odisha--succumbing at the government hospital.
All the deceased were women, with eight of them were natives of Odisha and two from Assam.
Health department officials said of the total 83 affected ,following the gas leak that occurred due to a glitch in the pipeline valve taking gas to ice flakes generator machine, ten had died, five were discharged after treatment and 68 -- 65 women and three men -- were under treatment. Of them, 17 were under treatment at ICU with ventilator support, 21 were put on oxygen...