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On 3 December 1984, over 500,000 people in the vicinity of the Union Carbide India Limited pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India were exposed to the highly toxic gas methyl isocyanate, in what is considered the world's worst industrial disaster. [3] About Bhopal Gas Tragedy On 3rd December 1984, highly toxic Methyl Isocyanate (MIC) gas leaked from a pesticide plant owned by Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL). Even after four decades of tragedy , hundreds of tonnes of toxic waste remain on premises of UCIL. It was India's first major Chemical (industrial) disaster. Other Chemical Disasters in India Ammonia Gas Leak at Chennai (2024): Due to damaged gas pipeline caused by cyclone Michaung. Vizag Gas Leak (2020): Styrene gas leak at LG ... Bhopal : December 3, 2019 marks 35 years of the Bhopal gas tragedy – the world's worst industrial disaster. On the intervening night of December 2 and 3 in 1984, toxic gas had leaked from the now-defunct Union Carbide factory in Madhya Pradesh’s capital Bhopal . In the following hours, thousands choked to death in Bhopal while many more thousands developed severe health complications that crippled them for the remaining part of their lives. FACE OF THE TRAGEDY : Raghu Rai’s iconic photograph for India Today of a child gas leak victim being buried in Bhopal , Dec. 5, 1984 The night of December 2, 1984, remains etched in public memory as one of the world’s worst industrial disasters. Bhopal , the city, became a synonym for unforgivable ...
