8 killed, several injured in suspected gas leak at Bangladesh shipbreaking yard

Senior government factory inspection official Mahbubul Hasan said the workers died due to toxic gas emissions from the ship.

Witnesses said they heard screams from inside the yard in the southeastern port city of Chittagong before workers rushed some of the victims to hospital.

A suspected gas leak at a shipbreaking yard in southeastern Bangladesh has killed at least eight people

Two died adter being transported to the hospital.

At least eight workers have died following a toxic gas leak at a ship-breaking yard in the southeastern Bangladeshi district of Chattogram, officials said on Friday. The incident occurred at the Ferdaus Steel Shipbreaking Yard in Sitakund subdistrict, an area that hosts many ship-breaking yards where old vessels mostly

A toxic gas leak at a Bangladesh shipbreaking yard kills at least 8 workers  Toronto Star

A suspected gas leak at a shipbreaking yard in southeastern Bangladesh has killed at least eight people