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Union Carbide: Disaster at Bhopal [1]

In the early hours of Moday, Dec 3,1984, a toxic cloud of methyl isocyanate (MIC)gas enveloped the hundreds of shanties and huts surrounding a pesticide plant in Bhopal, India. Later, as the deadly cloud slowly drifted in the cool night air through streets in surrounding sections, sleeping residents awoke, coughing, choking and rubbing painfully stinging eyes. By the time the gas cleared at dawn, many were dead or injured.

Publication Date: 
01/01/1993
Jackson B. Browning [2]
Tags:
Bhopal [3], Gas Leakages [4], Bhopal Gas Disaster [5], Methyl Isocyanate (MIC) [6], Union Carbide [7], United States Of America (US) [8], India [9]
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