Three treated at hospital after chlorine leak at GWI Better Hope plant

GWI’s Water Treatment Facility, where the chlorine leak occurred yesterday.

Three persons fell ill yesterday morning after chlorine gas seeped out of a leaking cylinder at the GWI’s Water Treatment Facility at Better Hope, East Coast Demerara and drifted across the village’s squatting area, causing that section of the village to be evacuated.

The gas wafted across the squatting area around 5 am yesterday and most residents were