A new gassing of the Northern industrial zone of Karnobat with hydrogen cyanide was registered today, Nova TV reported.
Six people felt ill on Monday night and sought help in the emergency room. Their condition is good and they did not have to be admitted to hospital, said the head of RZI - Burgas, Dr. Georgi Pazderov. He clarified that the people were not gassed, but inhaled the gas in question.
Their complaints were suffocation, nausea, vomiting.
The mayor of Karnobat Georgi Dimitrov said that he received a signal about the gassing on Monday at 10:20 p.m. and on Tuesday morning at 6:30 a.m. At that time, the samples for the presence of gas read 0, he added.
The inspection at the plant has not yet determined what caused the gas leak, said Burgas Regional Governor Plamen Yanev
„In the morning we came to work and as soon as we entered some colleagues in the office said that they felt nausea, vomiting, burning in their eyes. Some went to the medical office to see what was going on and were released. At 8:30 an ambulance came, a team and three or four female colleagues got into the ambulance and left the office, said Velichka Teneva, an employee.
The first gassing in the Karnobat industrial area was registered last Friday at noon, when workers at the cable factory smelled the suffocating smell.