NEW DELHI, India - Yellow-green clouds of chlorine gas spewed from a chemical tank at a strike-bound factory in the port city of Bombay Friday, killing one person and hospitalizing at least 113 others, the Press Trust of India said.

Last Dec. 2-3 , deadly methyl isocyanate poured from a U.S.-owned Union Carbide pesticide plant in the central city of Bhopal , killing at least 1,700 people and injuring 200,000 others.

Friday's chlorine leak, lasting four hours, originated in a storage tank at the chemical and plastics division of Calico Mills, a domestically owned firm in the northeastern suburb of Chembur, the domestic news agency said.

The plant had been closed since May because of a strike by employees. The leak occurred just as a union meeting involving 300 workers was starting at the factory's front gates.

Some of those affected by the gas remain in serious condition, said Dr. H.L. Dhar, acting dean of Sion Hospital, where most of the victims were taken.