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South Korea designates chemical leak area 'disaster zone'

South Korea has designated an area around a plant where an explosion led to a toxic chemical leak a special disaster zone.

Eight tonnes of hydrofluoric acid leaked from the Hube Global plant in Gumi after a blast on 27 September.

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