Panel recommends shifting LG Polymers plant hit by gas leak in Vizag

Probe says LG Polymers was negligent and warning systems were not working during leak on May 7.

An investigation into a deadly gas leak at a South Korean-owned chemical plant in Visakhapatnam that killed 12 people in May recommended the factory be moved away from inhabited areas, according to its full report released on Tuesday.

The probe at the plant run by LG Polymers, owned by South Korea's LG Chem Ltd, found the company was negligent and warning systems were not working, the state government said on Monday.

The investigation was set up after toxic styrene gas leaked from the chemical plant near Visakhapatnam in the early hours of May 7, choking many people who were sleeping