PLZZ EXPLAIN BHOPAL GAS TRAGEDY........
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Bhopal disaster is also called bhopal gas tragedy, was a leak incident at night of 2-3 December 1984 at the union carbide India limited pesticide plant in bhopal, madhya pradesh, India. It is considered to be the world's worst industrial disaster
Bhopal Tragedy
Bhopal faced one of the world's worst industrial disasters in the night of December 2-3, 1984 when a local factory leaked the poisonous M.I.C. ( Methyl Isocyanate ) The result was a death toll of several thousands in immediate aftermath.
More than 20,000 people have died till date from injuries sustained in the gas leak on night 2-3 December' 1984.
30,000 others - many of them survivors, and many other who were not in Bhopal on 'that night', and hundreds of children born long after 1984 are falling sick and dying even now.
Most people, when they think of Bhopal, recall only the horror of the 'that night', when gas was leaked from the factory and killed thousands of people. What is not generally known is that after the gas leaked , the factory was closed and for all practical purpose, abandoned by the company. To this day, you can see piles of of dangerous chemical lying in the open air. The warehouses are full of sack of poisons, many of which split open. Children and animals have found their way in and left footprints in the chemical dust. The structures and building on the site have been left to rot.The french writer Dominique Lapierre, author of Five Midnight in Bhopal, tried a glass of water and he felt that his mouth, throat tongue instantly go on fire, while his arms and leg suffer an immediate skin rash .This was the simple manifestation of what men, women and children have to endure daily , some 18 year of tragedy.
In Bhopal we are seeing that epidemics of cancer , kidney failure and birth damage. survivors campaigning for clear water successfully petitioned the Supreme court of India.
In may 2004 safe and clean water is piped into communities .... As the communities wait justice, the Bhopal gas tragedy seems to be an ongoing for its victims.