AP gas leak incidents: NGT asks firms to compensate victims within 2 weeks

At Sainor Life Sciences factory, 2 workers were killed and 4 hospitalised after gas leaked; in the second incident, ammonia gas leaked at SPY Agro Industries resulting in death of 1 and injured three

The National Green Tribunal Tuesday directed two companies to pay interim compensation within two weeks to the victims of separate gas leak incidents in Andhra Pradesh.

In one case, two workers were killed and four hospitalised after Benzimidazole the gas leaked at Sainor Life Sciences factory in the Parwada area in Visakhapatnam.

In the second incident, ammonia gas leak accident at Nandyal in Kurnool district in SPY Agro Industries on June 26 resulted in the death of one person and injured three workers.
 

A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel noted that while a compensation of Rs