Over 580 fall ill after chlorine leak

  • 31/10/1998

  • Hindu (New Delhi)

More than 580 people fell ill, half a dozen cattle died and cotton and soyabean crops in a four km radius destroyed due to the impact of toxic chlorine gas which leaked from cylinders when a truck, carrying them overturned and caught fire in Bhoyan valley, 30 km from Banswara in South Rajasthan, on Thursday night.