Today marks the 25 anniversary of the 'Bhopal disaster'.
The Indian city of Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh will forever be associated with the world’s worst industrial catastrophe. “Thousands of people died and over half a million people have health disorders after a leak of toxic gas from the Union Carbide plant in December 1984” - Collins need to know? The World.
Campaigners and survivors claim that dangerous toxins are still leaking from the site into the soil and drinking water, causing birth defects and chronic illnesses, and demand clean up action.
See also BBC News online: Bhopal: 25 years on
3 Dec 2009
25 years since the Bhopal Disaster
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