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Ammonia leak at food factory, workers evacuated

Ambulance crews help evacuate workers and residents exposed to ammonia which leaked from a frozen food factory in Songkhla’s Hat Yai district on Tuesday night. (Photo: Assawin Pakkawan)

SONGKHLA: About 100 workers were evacuated from their nearby accommodation after being exposed to ammonia leaking from a frozen food factory in Hat Yai district on Monday night.

The gas leak occurred about 10pm when the factory was closed and only mechanics on night duty were inside, officials said.

The ammonia leaked from the production line inside the factory and spread outside to nearby workers’ accommodation and neighbouring houses.

About 100 workers, most of them migrants from Myanmar, and some local residents were evacuated to a medical…

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