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Bhopal, India: pesticide plant A group of women sit together at a protest in New Delhi, with one woman in front holding a pink sign reading 30 years is enough! Justice in Bhopal now. Three seated women with cloth bandages over their eyes, victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster, with several people and industrial buildings visible in the background.
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Bhopal disaster

industrial accident, Bhopal, India [1984]
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Bhopal disaster, chemical leak in 1984 in the city of Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh state, India. At the time, it was called the worst industrial accident in history. On December 3, 1984, about 45 tons of the dangerous gas methyl isocyanate escaped from an insecticide plant that was owned by the Indian subsidiary of the American firm Union Carbide Corporation. The gas drifted over the densely populated neighbourhoods around the plant, killing thousands of people immediately...

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