[3] a government affidavit in 2006 stated that the leak caused approximately 558,125 injuries, including 38,478 temporary partial injuries. Gas leak in india kills at least 410 in city of bhopal. Bhopal disaster, chemical leak in 1984 in the city of bhopal, madhya pradesh state, india, during which about 45 tons of methyl isocyanate escaped from an insecticide plant
The 1984 Bhopal Disaster in India — A Message for Industrialists
Tens of thousands of people were killed, some half a million others suffered maladies, and the site remained contaminated decades after the leak.
The 1984 gas leak in bhopal, india, killed thousands
The world's deadliest industrial disaster exposed 500,000 people to toxic gas and claimed thousands of lives a web of technical failures, human errors and corporate malpractice in bhopal, india. On december 3 1984, more than 40 tons of methyl isocyanate gas leaked from a pesticide plant in bhopal, india, immediately killing at least 3,800 people and causing significant morbidity and premature death for many thousands more The bhopal gas tragedy is etched in history as the world's worst industrial disaster It began with a gas leak at the union carbide factory, a pesticide plant located in bhopal, india, in december 1984
This tragic incident resulted in the release of toxic methyl isocyanate (mic) gas, exposing hundreds of thousands of people to its deadly effects The gas exposure caused immediate and long. What happened on the night of december 2nd, 1984, a union carbide plant in bhopal, india, began leaking 27 tons of the deadly gas methyl isocyanate. A version of this article appears in print on dec
4, 1984, section a, page 1 of the national edition with the headline