Mumbai, Oct 5 (PTI) One worker was killed and four had to be hospitalised due to the leak of poisonous gas at an industrial unit in Maharashtra's Raigad district on Thursday, a police official said.

The incident took place in the DETP plant of the unit in Amshet in Mahad MIDC at 8:30am, the official said.

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"Five workers had to be rushed to hospital following the gas leak. Of them one person identified as Akhilesh Singh Mahendra Singh, a native of West Bengal, died. The others are hospitalised," he said.

A case was registered under Indian Penal Code sections for causing death by negligence, rash and negligent act endangering human life and other offences, the official added.

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